Richard Reina wrote:
I have a simple perl script that every few hours pings the handful of machines on my LAN. Lately I've sometimes been getting
ping of 192.168.0.1 succeeded ping of 192.168.0.7 succeeded ping of 192.168.0.5 FAILED ping of 192.168.0.6 succeeded ping of 192.168.0.9 succeeded
This machine in question has been running Centos faithfully for about six years and no recent changes to it have been made. When I try and
ping the
machine manually it works. /var/og/messages does not seem irregular. Does anyone know know what might be the problem or what else I might check?
Have you done an ifconfig on 5, and seen if there's any collisions, etc? Another possibility is that *you* haven't changed, but someone else has put a piece of hardware on the LAN that's trying to get that IP, or has it configured for that IP.
mark, who *really* wishes that the network folks would give their hardware IPs by MAC, not broadcast