Re: Duplicate IP false alerts from arping

[unni krishnan <unnikrishnan.a@xxxxxxxxx>]

which tool you suggest for sending/tracking arp replies in Linux

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Pascal Hambourg
<pascal.mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> unni krishnan a écrit :
>> Ok, then what is the best method to find the duplicate IP ( same IP
>> address assigned to different machines ) ?
>
> Send one ARP request for the IP address and check the number of replies.
> If you get several replies from different MAC addresses, then the target
> IP address is duplicate (unless it is assigned to one host with several
> interfaces connected to the network as I wrote earlier).
>
> [Removing netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx from the Cc: list again, this topic is
> not related to Linux networking development.]
>



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