[ale] interesting difference in rh7.3 and winxp

[Jonathan Glass]

One machine would not be able to communicate.  Generally Windows boxes
will detect an IP conflict, and disable their IP stack.  It is VERY
annoying, because you almost always have to reboot to be able to use the
network.

HTH

Jonathan

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 10:02, Irv Mullins wrote:
> On Thursday 26 June 2003 09:35 am, Geoffrey wrote:
> <snip>
> >   When I went to the command line, and attempted the restart the
> > network, it complained that the ip I was trying to use, was already in
> > use by another machine on the network.
> >
> > Bottom line, xp didn't care, set the ip to an already used ip and went
> > along with it's business.
> >
> > rh7.3 is smarter then winxp... :)
> 
> No doubt. I don't know a lot about networking, so a question for those who do: 
> just what sort of erm.. interesting .. things might happen if 2 machines had 
> the same ip? 
> 
> Regards,
> Irv
> 
> 
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