[SunHELP] "trying to be our address" message

[Richard Worwood]

I'd have to agree, I've done a search on the mac address as well and the box
you should be looking for is a sun box rather than a laptop. sorry !!!

On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> 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!
> 
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