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That DHCP reservation that took me 4 hours to debug
I spent last Tuesday chasing a network issue at a small office in Austin. Turns out the printer kept dropping offline because someone had set a static IP that overlapped with the DHCP pool. Took me 4 hours to notice the conflict because nobody labeled the device on the network map. Has anyone else dealt with dumb overlap issues that should have been caught in 10 minutes?
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phoenix8455mo ago
Did you already check if the DHCP server was logging those overlaps? Seems like a basic thing to turn on but half the time people skip it.
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simonreed4mo ago
Wish I'd remembered that before spending hours chasing ghosts.
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matthew_morgan5mo ago
Yeah, "basic thing to turn on" is exactly right, I learned that one the hard way too.
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