[SunHELP] "trying to be our address" message

[Brian Hinz]

Hi all,

I've had a persistent problem of the following message being broadcast to my 
console, and I can't figure out why it is happening.

Jan 12 16:39:02 mountaineer ip: WARNING: IP: Hardware address 
'08:00:20:f0:f2:1f' trying to be our address 192.168.001.057!
Jan 12 16:39:02 mountaineer last message repeated 1 time

I did a web search and all the solutions that I found claimed that a windows box 
on the same network set to use the same ip was the culprit, but 
'08:00:20:f0:f2:1f' is the mac address of this machine! I do have a SunPCi card 
but I don't belive that it is related since this happens when the sunpci 
software is not even running. Just to be certain it wasn't a conflict with 
another machine, I changed the ip to one that I knew wasn't in use and the 
message still continued (with the new ip of course). Anyone have an idea what 
sort of gremlin might be behind this? A few other tidbits:
this machine is an ultra 5 set up for static ip (no dhcp), a linux box is 
running dns and there is no NIS service. all other network services are working 
correctly.

TiA,
-brian