PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!

[Sean Dilda]

On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 09:56, Matt Burleigh wrote:
> Peter Hicks wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 08:38:36AM -0400, Matt Burleigh wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >> What does this mean? "PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!"
> >>   
> >
> >
> > What's this been generated from? fping?  Is it possible another IP 
> > address
> > is responding...?
> >  
> >
> It was generated from "check_ping". Its almost impossible for the 
> another host to have been assigned this IP. Its outside the DHCP range 
> on that subnet and the hosts that are being checked are directjet's on 
> three different kinds of HP printers (a LJ9000, CLJ5500, and a DJ800). 
> I'm really scratching my head on this...

There are a dozen reasons two hosts could have the same IP, and most of
them don't deal with DHCP.  Someone could have brought up and old host
that used to have the IP, or someone could have been fooling around with
their own IP settings for a minute or two.  The DHCP server could have
goofed.  And even the router (if there is one) between you and the
printers could have goofed.  And someone could have hooked up a personal
laptop and just stolen the printer IP, hoping no one would notice.



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