TITLE
    Open Transport: Duplicate IP Address on Network
Article ID:
Created:
Modified: 		18134
7/11/95
3/3/98
TOPIC

    I have a new Power Macintosh 9500 and I have been unsuccessful in determining an IP address for the Power Macintosh 9500. I used a piece of software that allows me to assign an IP address to machines on my network to paste an address from a Centris 610 to my Power Macintosh 9500.

    I have been successful in downloading files from the Internet to both machines with the same address on the same sub-node simultaneously.

    How is this possible?

DISCUSSION

    You should never have two machines on the same network with the same IP address. You may encounter trouble with lost packets and dropped connections later on if you continue to use your machine in this configuration.

    Normally, if any computer has the same IP address as a host on the network the host will shut down the connection. The first release of Open Transport in System 7.5.2 did not check to see if there was a duplicate IP address and therefore would not present you with a warning or dialog that the condition existed.

    This issue has been resolved. You should update to Open Transport 1.1 or newer.

Document Information
Product Area: Communications-Networking
Category: Open Transport
Sub Category: General Topics

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