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Decect collision

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nitinkgoud

nitinkgoud

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Jun 28, 2006
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Hello,
I am to plumb ip addresses to few NIC's on my servers.
I do not know if the IP is already used by another machine ( i dont want to use ping because the server cold be behind a firewall).
please tell me a command to decect and/or moniter collision.

Please help.


 
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sounds like a "silent intrusion"...
just an idea: you could sniffer the network with a NIC in promiscous mode (man snoop) on a port which "sees" all the network traffic. After a while you will know all the IPs in use.

Best Regards, Franz
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UNIX System Manager from Munich, Germany
 
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