Re: IP forwarding bug in 2.0.3x ?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 16 Aug 1999 19:45:45 +0100 (BST)

> Very occasionally, every month or so, the vivid router stops talking to
> us. Last time it happened, it was found that the vivid had mapped the
> hardware address of our router to the ip address of one of the office
> machines.

Could someone be using your addresses wrongly on the other lan ?

> Does this mean our linux machine is sending corrupt packets to the router?

I doubt it. Running arpwatch on both sides of the network may give you clues

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