Re: PATCH: duplicate IP detection (new version)
Steven Roberts (strobert@ata-sd.com)
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:35:51 -0700
almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch wrote:
> Marc Merlin wrote:
> > We either got one of our ARP packets back because of a bad switch or something similar, or some machine is using our MAC address 00:A0:CC:3C:40:DB and our IP address 192.168.205.9
> [etc.]
>
> What about staying within the traditional 80 columns ? E.g.
> Saw ARP from MAC 00:A0:CC:3C:40:DB (us) and IP 192.168.205.1 (us too)
> With the combinations us/not us, not us/us, and us/us too.
I like this better than the format Marc had in his latesting posting
(Marc's format seemed too wordy)
not that my opinion matters much here, but I would like to see the patch
included (even if it was the verbose prinkt version)...
I have had too many winbloze boxes ignore DHCP specs and keep ip's and
this would have helped debug the problem...
> People who can't draw the right conclusions from this aren't likely to
> find the problem anyway ;-)
*grin* -- I would have to agree
Steve
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