[SunHELP] "trying to be our address" message

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Sun 2001-01-14 (03:29), Tim Conrad wrote:
> (I suppose that one could find out who
> 08:00:20 is 'owned' by

Sun. Or clone, of course. Judging from the last three octets, it must
be a rather recent model...

> 
> > > 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!

Can you try 'arp -a' from another machine and grep for the mac addr ?

Steffen

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