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Hubs are dumb networking devices. Dumb in the meaning that it does nothing with controlling the network traffic. It receives data and passes it out on all ports. A hub has no way to detect an IP address conflict. 
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Hubs are dumb networking devices. Dumb in the meaning that it does nothing with controlling the network traffic. It receives data and passes it out on all ports. A hub has no way to detect an IP address conflict.

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Hi,<br />
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The hub doesn't play a part of IP address conflict detection.<br />
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This is normally done by the operating system. For example a Windows PC will send a gratitous ARP stating that it is going to be using a particular IP address. If another device responds it knows that another device is using that address and flags an address conflict.
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Hi,

The hub doesn't play a part of IP address conflict detection.

This is normally done by the operating system. For example a Windows PC will send a gratitous ARP stating that it is going to be using a particular IP address. If another device responds it knows that another device is using that address and flags an address conflict.

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@Ram<br />
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Hi,<br />
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How HUBs detect the IP address conflict?What is the Internal Mechanism as HUBs are Layer 1 device and How systems will get IP address conflict messages if those are connected to HUB.Will <br />
ARP protocol works in HUB?<br />
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Regards<br />
Ramu
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Hi,

How HUBs detect the IP address conflict?What is the Internal Mechanism as HUBs are Layer 1 device and How systems will get IP address conflict messages if those are connected to HUB.Will 
ARP protocol works in HUB?

Regards
Ramu

HUBs and IP address Conflict

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A switch is a device that filters and forwards packets of data between LAN segments. Switches operate at the data link layer or the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model and therefore support any packet protocol. LANs that use switches to join segments are called switched LANs or, in the case of Ethernet networks, switched Ethernet LANs. A hub is a connection point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports; when a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets.