[ale] interesting difference in rh7.3 and winxp

[Doug McNash]

LOL
I was developing a network driver for an embedded product 
connected to the company network (big mistake).  I was 
enabling the interface before the IP address was assigned 
and it would send out a null arp packet (arp who-has 
0.0.0.0 tell 0.0.0.0).  Most of the Windows machines would 
puke and die thinking they had detected a duplicate IP 
address.  The Linux machines would make no notice.  I 
believe some old Solaris machines would log the correct 
error.  I got a lot of people angry at me for that one 
when they tracked it to me.

On 26 Jun 2003 10:13:51 -0400
  Jonathan Glass <jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu> wrote:
>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.
--
Doug McNash <dmcnash at yahoo.com>
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