Well, then the SA should be keeping a better list of which IPs are in use.
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, bindal wrote: > users assign their IPs themselves as per advice from SA > > Hal Burgiss wrote: > > >On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 09:34:03AM +0530, bindal wrote: > > > >>In RH 7.2, when a PC is configured with an IP Address on a LAN and > >>that IP is already configured on another machine, then the new > >>machines grabs the IP from the old machine and causes the > >>malfunctioning of the old PC with the same IP.. > >> > >>This way anyone can bring down our server on our LAN ?? > >> > > > >I would think only root could do this. > > > > > >>And there is no way to know if there is an IP conflict ?? > >> > > > >>Any solutions to this problem ?? > >> > > > >How are the IPs being assigned in the place? DHCP? Randomly chosen by > >users? There has to be some mechanism. The mechanism should not allow > >this. > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
