Lars Müller wrote:
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 08:49:39AM -0500, James Knott wrote:
Hugo Palma wrote:
Well, awnsering my own question and after 2 days of fighting this problem some guy just came to my pc and solved it in two seconds. It seems that someone here decided to use a fixed IP and chose the IP that the dhcp was always assigning to my mac address. So, it was simply an IP conflict.
Still, shouldn't a nice popup show up indicating this error ? That would have saved my two days of problems.
The problem is how to detect this situation. Some DHCP servers will ping an address, before issuing one, though I don't think that would work, on a renewal. Also, with switches, it's difficult to even watch the network, to see if someone has grabbed your address. All you can do, if you suspect this, is have someone else ping your IP address, to verify the MAC address.
/etc/sysconfig/network/config:CHECK_DUPLICATE_IP has to be "yes" by default. At the moment this is no and this is wrong in the majority of cases.
But a change will only address the issue on the low level. We also need to inform the user about the address conflict.
Lars
I hadn't heard of that option. Is packet sockets enabled by default? What happens if a duplicate is found? What happens if a DHCP address has been assigned and then someone manually assigns that address on another computer, which IIRC is the case in the original message? -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org