Re: Idea - Detecting IP conflicts in NM

[Ferry Huberts <mailings hupie com>]

On 04/22/2011 10:36 AM, Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> http://ipwatchd.sourceforge.net/ipwatchd-whitepaper.pdf
> http://wiki.wireshark.org/Gratuitous_ARP
> 
> There's an old project called ipwatchd to detect and notify users about
> IP conflicts. Currently there's no way in NM to detect these kind of
> conflicts causing the same IP to be used by different hosts.
> 
> Maybe the functionality of this daemon can be integrated into NM, or if
> the kernel now replies to Gratuitous ARP requests, the task will be much
> easier.
> 
> Ideas, thoughts?
> 
> 


see also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607989

grtz

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Ferry Huberts