Re: (PM) PM2E Weirdness

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Mon, 10 Nov 1997 09:01:21 -0600 (CST)

On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Mark Morley wrote:

> The other day my pager started going off, telling me that one of our
> PM2's was down. Sure enough, I couldn't ping it, telnet to it, etc.
> We rebooted it and all was fine for 5 minutes, then it went dead

If its about 5 mins, this means another machine on the net with an ip
conflikt.

> Then we noticed that one of our servers was reporting an IP conflict
> with a certain ethernet address. Sure enough, it was the PM2 that
> we had removed from the network. We hooked a console up to it and

> Does this ring any bells for anyone? Any idea what's going on? Could
> the ethernet port on these two units have gone south?

You MUST have some other machine with the same IP address. What about
virtual addressing on something?
>
> It's quickly becoming a moot point as we are almost finished replacing
> all PM2's with PM3's, but I'm still curious...
>

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