[openbeos] Re: question about duplicate ip address error

> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 22:35:06 -0500
> From: Antonio Carpio <ajcarpio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [openbeos] question about duplicate ip address error
> 
> 
> Howdy,
> I am writing a NIC driver for the DP83815 chips used in the Netgear 
> FA311 chipsets and am getting messages from users saying that they get
> duplicate ip address errors.  I was wondering if anyone here had any 
> knowledge of what can cause this error to appear. 
> More exactly, what 
> outside of an actual duplicate ip address can cause the network stack to
> come to this conclusion?  Thanks for any info you all gots.

The MAC hardware address published by your driver is invalid.
Or a bug which magicly corrupt any ARP packets sent/received thru 
this driver! ;-)

Did you check under another OS your own test card MAC address, 
to see if your driver get_the_MAC_address code get you the same value?
You can check, too, what MAC address you pass to net_server by 
source debbuging (bdb) net_server and stop in your net_server addon 
EtherDevice::Address() method.

-Philippe

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