strange problem with LAN
Rick Stevens
rstevens at internap.com
Tue Apr 10 20:54:26 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 12:56 -0700, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> I have assigned IP addresses to the boxes on my home network,
> 192.168.1.11 thru 192.168.1.14. This arrangement has worked without
> problems until today.
>
> When I booted up the machine at 192.168.1.13, instead of the usual
> report of eth0 being activated I saw an error message: "Some other host
> already uses 192.168.1.13". I was unable to ping 192.168.1.13 from
> another machine. Box 192.168.1.13 remained unconnected to the LAN until
> I manually activated eth0 using system-config-network. Then everything
> worked normally.
>
> I rebooted another of the boxes 192.168.1.11 and got a similar message:
> "Some other host already uses 192.168.1.11". Again, activating eth0
> solved the problem.
>
> What's happening? Is there an easy solution? If not, what can I do to
> troubleshoot this further?
Er, are you using dhcp? You might also check to see if the arp tables
in your router have been flushed.
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