[Tfug] duplicate ip address (off topic)

[christopher floess]

Thanks everyone. Maybe I'll build a small network and try it. Just thought
it might be interesting to know

On 2/8/07, Shawn Nock <nock at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
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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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