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At 08:23 19.09.2003 -0700, RA Cohen wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a FBSD 4.8 box running Samba in my network. Lately I am
>noticing some strange messages at the console concerning my
>firewall. The messages basically say the MAC address of my linux
>firewall's internal ip address has changed...and 15 minutes
>later changed again (to the original MAC address)...and so on.

Sounds like the IP address of your firewall is used by another machine.

Alexander