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Old 06-08-2009
Error message WARNING: IP: Hardware address

Dear All,

I Have machine SF E4900 with SunOS 5.10 Generic_118833-24 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire. I check my server have error message like this :

Jun 3 18:57:39 ip: [ID 903730 kern.warning] WARNING: IP: Hardware address '00:14:4f:67:00:92' trying to be our address 172.020.004.029!
Jun 3 19:00:23 last message repeated 3 times
Jun 3 19:00:34 ip: [ID 903730 kern.warning] WARNING: IP: Hardware address '00:14:4f:67:00:92' trying to be our address 172.020.004.029!
Jun 3 19:06:24 last message repeated 7 times
Jun 3 19:07:48 ip: [ID 903730 kern.warning] WARNING: IP: Hardware address '00:14:4f:67:00:92' trying to be our address 172.020.004.029!
Jun 3 19:12:56 last message repeated 6 times
Jun 3 19:14:19 ip: [ID 903730 kern.warning] WARNING: IP: Hardware address '00:14:4f:67:00:92' trying to be our address 172.020.004.029!
Jun 3 19:19:41 last message repeated 5 times
Jun 3 19:21:31 ip: [ID 903730 kern.warning] WARNING: IP: Hardware address '00:14:4f:67:00:92' trying to be our address 172.020.004.029!
Jun 3 19:25:59 last message repeated 11 times
Jun 3 19:28:48 ip: [ID 903730 kern.warning] WARNING: IP: Hardware address '00:14:4f:67:00:92' trying to be our address 172.020.004.029!
Jun 3 19:32:35 last message repeated 4 times
Jun 3 19:34:54 ip: [ID 903730 kern.warning] WARNING: IP: Hardware address '00:14:4f:67:00:92' trying to be our address 172.020.004.029!
Jun 3 19:38:31 last message repeated 12 times
Jun 3 19:40:41 ip: [ID 903730 kern.warning] WARNING: IP: Hardware address '00:14:4f:67:00:92' trying to be our address 172.020.004.029!
Jun 3 19:46:45 last message repeated 9 times

Is it critical message...?


Best Regards

BejoSmilie
# 2  
Old 06-08-2009
TCP/IP basics...
you can't have two devices in the same subnet with the same IP address.

bascily this error is due to two devices having the same IP address.
I recomend you track down the device with the MAC address in the errors and get it fixed.
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