Re: Why no printk for duplicate IPs?

Bernd Eckenfels (ecki@lina.inka.de)
Sat, 02 Oct 1999 06:56:00 +0200


In article <E11WHGk-0001w8-00@the-village.bc.nu> you wrote:
> ARP Replies are unicast

Yes, but Who-Has ARP Requests are Broadcasted and have the ip-address of the
host who is asking for it. That wont catch all cases but can give a good
indicaton of an active host claimng to have the same address as yours.

Greetings
Bernd

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