Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:58:43 -0400 | From | Alex Nicolaou <> | Subject | Re: Why no printk for duplicate IPs? |
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Peter Benie wrote: > Marc Merlin writes ("Re: Why no printk for duplicate IPs?"): > > However, at least Solaris, Irix and 95/NT give you a warning when someone > > steals your IP (at runtime, not ifconfig time). > > I suppose they do an ARP request on their own IP after answering an ARP > > request themselves, and watch for an answer. > > > > Any reason we can't do that? > > An alternative approach is to log when we receive a broadcast IP from an > external interface which is apparently from one of our own addresses.
This is worth knowing, but your firewall configuration tools already let you do this. Why add a new way to do the same thing?
alex
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