[SunHELP] "trying to be our address" message

[Tim Conrad]

I'd vote it's a duplicate ip address on your network. At least, whenever I've seen that
particular message, i've found that that is what the problem is. If it isn't a persistant
thing, it's possible it's something like a laptop, or a device like a macintosh that doesn't
always have TCP active on it's ethernet port. (I suppose that one could find out who
08:00:20 is 'owned' by, but that is rarely truly helpful. Most manufacturers mix and match
cards, so it's difficult to figure out)

Tim



> > 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!