Feature changed by: phanisvara das (phanisvara) Feature #313457, revision 4 Title: IP address management options for duplicate IP Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Chris Randles (chrisrandles) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: If serverA has IP Address 192.168.1.1 and is powered down, and serverB is configured with the same IP address, then when both serverA and B are running there can be issues. While, admittedly, this is an Administrative issue, the customer would like to see a way to do one of the following: 1. If, when the network is coming up, the ip address is bound already on another box, prevent this server from loading/binding the configured IP address (although I can see this as a security issue). 2. Bind a default address 3. Get a DHCP address and once the system is up email the admin with the problem + Discussion: + #1: phanisvara das (phanisvara) (2012-05-08 21:21:22) + now this sounds like a really weird idea to me. i must admit that i'm + not network guru, but i definitely want to know which machien has which + IP address, without having to check further into the filesystem, or + whatever. + and what's the need to configure two machines with the same IP? this + goes completely against whatever little i've understood about + networking... -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313457