[Tfug] duplicate ip address (off topic)

[Shawn Nock]

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Tyler Kilian wrote:
> The MAC table is separate from the ARP table.  You wouldn't DoS a MAC
> table with an IP address conflict, you'd DoS it by filling up the MAC
> table with MACs, at which point the switch does usually default to either
> broadcast or to crash. ;)  In the case of an IP conflict, however, there
> is a 1:1 mapping of MAC to IP, so the table won't be more full by having x
> number of machines competing for the same IP.

True enough... that post was pre-coffee. Please forgive.

Shawn

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Shawn Nock (OpenPGP: 0xB64200E1)
Unix Systems Group; CCIT
University of Arizona
nock at email.arizona.edu
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