One of my friends was just complaining to me about how his inetd was
acting up.. '2.2.16 #97 Fri Jun 16 19:45:30 PDT 2000 i486 unknown'.
(#97? I don't have any idea why.. :)
Of course, when he took it offline and noticed that it was still returning
pings, he realized that he was using the same ip address as another
machine outside of his group. This reminded me that on other networks I
have been on, I have found someone else using the same ip address.
M$-windows of course pops up a friendly dialog box, indicating that the ip
has been detected in use by someone else, and courteously disables that
ethernet interface for you :) :)
The question:
linux does not seem to indicate if anyone else answers arp requests for
its own ip's (correct me if i am wrong); how does one tell if the ip is in
use [short of unplugging the box or querying someone else's arp tables :)
:)]?
I would think a syslog entry would be most helpful to a lot of people on
dhcp-run networks!
-g
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