strange problem with LAN

Knute Johnson knute at frazmtn.com
Tue Apr 10 20:56:07 UTC 2007


>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?
>
>Thanks for the help!
>Jerry

Jerry:

This appears to be the same problem I posted about with the subject: 
"Problem configuring the network" today.  I'm not getting any good 
answers either but we have the same problem if that is any 
consolation.

-- 
Knute Johnson
Molon Labe...





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