Why does messages similar to "WARNING: IP: Hardware address '<MAC-ADDRESS>' trying to be our address 010.089.030.006!" gets logged in /var/log/messages ?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The following message gets logged in /var/log/messages every half an hour, why ?
kern.warning hardware address <MAC-ADDRESS> trying to be our address 010.089.030.006!
  • The mac address is of eth2 and the IP address is of bond0 created using eth1 and eth2.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

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