[ale] interesting difference in rh7.3 and winxp

[irvm at ellijay.com (Irv Mullins)]

On Thursday 26 June 2003 09:35 am, Geoffrey wrote:
<snip>
>   When I went to the command line, and attempted the restart the
> network, it complained that the ip I was trying to use, was already in
> use by another machine on the network.
>
> Bottom line, xp didn't care, set the ip to an already used ip and went
> along with it's business.
>
> rh7.3 is smarter then winxp... :)

No doubt. I don't know a lot about networking, so a question for those who do: 
just what sort of erm.. interesting .. things might happen if 2 machines had 
the same ip? 

Regards,
Irv


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