Re: Syslog message errors!
Amanda Shuler wrote:
> I thought that if you put two machines on a network with the same
>IP, the newest maching on the network would knock off the old machine?
>When I asked him about it, he said that, although he wasn't sure, he
>thought that linux "held" onto it's IP address even if another machine on
>the network showed up with that IP.
>Is this true?
A Linux machine's IP address is set by ifconfig. This usually happens
while it is going multi-user.
There is no provision for a machine to change its IP address if it
finds a clash - there ought not to be a clash!
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