Re: IP forwarding bug in 2.0.3x ?

Geoff Short (geoff@kipper.york.ac.uk)
Mon, 16 Aug 1999 19:51:36 +0100

On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 07:45:45PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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 ?

Seems very unlikely but I'll bear it in mind. It usually happens at
odd times of the day, but last time I was reading news from the central
server when it locked up - it was my ip number which came up on the router.

> > 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

Ok, thanks,

Geoff

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