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 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos