[openbeos] Re: question about duplicate ip address error

  • From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 22:59:42 -0500 EST

Antonio Carpio wrote on Sun, 26 Jan 2003 22:35:06 -0500:
> 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.

Perhaps its seeing its own broadcasts declaring that its MAC address is bound 
to that IP?  Or someone else's IP?  Or maybe it's also broadcasting some other 
MAC (you did get it correctly from the hardware?) by mistake?

- Alex



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