On Mon Jun 19, 2000 at 08:19:46PM -0400, Michael Bacarella wrote:
> >
> > 2. Someone else is clashing with the IP address occasionally. If so the
> > console activity to the net would rewrite the arp cache entries in the
> > routers back correctly.
>
> Amazing. It was in fact 2. Some Windows box (wrongly) took the same
> IP address. Thanks for the lightning fast response.
>
> We verified this by instructing the Linux server to reboot while pinging
> it's address. While it was rebooting we started getting replies. The
> router's arp cache showed that the MAC address changed. Gosh
> that's frustrating. :)
arpwatch will email you when this sort of thing happens.
It can be a real lifesaver...
-Erik
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