Re: Too Much ARP-ing

Ow W K Danny (owwkd@clazinet.lugs.org.sg)
Wed, 29 Jan 1997 08:33:14 +0800 (SGT)


On Mon, 27 Jan 1997 owner-linux-kernel-digest@vger.rutgers.edu wrote:

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> From: "A.N.Kuznetsov" <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 20:06:14 +0300
> Subject: Re: Too Much ARP-ing
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> In article <199701270218.VAA09752@delta.CES.CWRU.Edu> you wrote:
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> : This is a typical scenario from tcpdump -p (my machine is jeff):
> : 15:30:37.455806 arp who-has hunny.INS.CWRU.Edu tell ins02055.INS.CWRU.Edu
> : 15:30:37.455806 arp who-has ins02055.INS.CWRU.Edu tell jeff.krafty.com
> : 16:27:55.025806 arp who-has hunny.INS.CWRU.Edu tell b64471.STUDENT.CWRU.Edu
> : 16:27:55.025806 arp who-has b64471.STUDENT.CWRU.Edu tell jeff.krafty.com
> : 16:27:55.325806 arp who-has rabbit.INS.CWRU.Edu tell b62701.STUDENT.CWRU.Edu
> : 16:27:55.325806 arp who-has b62701.STUDENT.CWRU.Edu tell jeff.krafty.com
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> : Is this behavior normal?
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> It depends on your setup.
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> Do you use net aliases on this ethernet? If you do you will have to suffer.
> net_aliases are broken in 2.0.
>
I'm a non-techie running Linux v2.0.27 but I noticed that when using
IP-aliases,

route add -host xx.xx.xx.xx eth0:0

my win95 host complained about eth0 hw address conflict, and ifconfig
having the same eth0 hw address as the gateway host.

Could this be a hw address conflict?

danny ow