Ping one address but another shows up during the report!!

[wncads]

What is going on when I am at the MSDOS prompt and type ping 192.090.242.xxx and the computer replies something like pinging 174.090.13.xxx ?? Totally changing the way I entered the ping command. I slowed the NIC card down to Full Duplex 10mbps from 100mbps but that still did not help. Can anyone tell my why this happened and a resolutions when I know that I am on the correct network and should be able to ping the address I entered just fine... Thanks,

Keith
keith@aplusnetworking.com

 

[mbhandari]

Can you try "route Print" at the prompt it will give you some clue.
Try looking ARP cache also.
-bhandari

 

[wybnormal]

Do a traceroute and see if makes a weird jump in the path.

For a very strange solution, I had a sun box once that specially configured to receive the packets on one of 4 ports. Each port had the same MAC but different IPs for load balancing. Nifty trick but drove sniffers crazy.

( for the Solaris geeks, this was a "quad" card)

Mike S

 

[fenris]

Check your hosts file, there is probably a reference to that ip there.



Troy Williams B.Eng.
fenris@hotmail.com

 

[hnd]

Hello wncads
You should check your netmask. It should be similar 255.255.255.0

Make sure, that the host part is not 0 or 255 because 255 is the broadcast address. In this case all pingserver in the network will answer.



hnd
hasso55@yahoo.com

 

[Guest_imported]

The .090 octet looked kinda squirrely to me, so I tried to ping with one, 192.090.17.1 and I got the same kind of result. My first instinct was that the software was interpreting the 090 as a butchered hex number but the math doesn't quite work. Try it, guys and you will see what i'm talking about.
Troy Winemiller