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    Senior Member Blunted One's Avatar
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    Angry Duplicate IPs

    Recently as well as in the not so recent past I have noticed that certain devices like the IP phones complain or stop working when a duplicate IP is detected. This also seems to happen ever so often with game consoles (since they are connected to the network too).

    Aside from this being quite annoying I was wondering how I can solve this issue once and for all.

    Would changing the settings in DNS so dynamic updates are changed from just secure to both secure and non-secure do anything to help this matter or am I looking at the wrong thing.

    I have tried removing IP addresses from DHCP in the hopes of resolving the conflicts, but still some seem to stick around and cause certain devices to not work until I can find the old device that was using the IP or simply set the non-functioning device to a static IP.

    Perhaps the solution is right under my nose, but I am not sure what I need to change in order to get this problem out of my way permanently.

    As always thanks for any light you can shed on my problem.
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    DNS is not what you are wanting. DNS is for resolving host names to IP addresses and wouldn't fix your problem with duplicate IP's. It is most likely a problem with your router. Do you have DHCP turned on for everything or are you statically assigning addresses to some of your devices? Sometimes when you do this, DHCP in your router(or server) might not notice that ip is taken and assign it to something else causing this conflict. If you are using static ip's for some things, set everything to DHCP and that should fix your problem.

    Hope this helps a little
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    The only router we have is the one connecting us to the internet. Everything else is on a lot of switches.

    If a device keeps trying to take an occupied address how can I have it re-request an different IP address? Or is that even possible.

    Everything except for a few machines, servers and consoles are on DHCP. The range of IP address is very large though so I don't get why the devices don't just grab the next availible IP. Any ideas?

    Thanks for the info.
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    A network card will always try to use the last ip address issued to it. In dhcp you can set detection conflict (ping first to see if the address is in use) in windows dchp its on the dhcp server name under properties and advanced.
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    I always follow the following plan when addressing a network


    .1-.10 = Network edge equipment
    .15-.40 = Servers
    .35-80 = Printers
    .100-200 = DHCP Scope for Workstations

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    Another thing to consider is that you have only one DHCP Server on your network, if you have a Server make sure you use it's DHCP and turn off the DHCP on the Router.

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    do you have enough addresses in your dhcp range? Check the expiry too, we've had the dhcp set not to expire. Found a device that was thrown away three years ago in the dhcp. eugh.
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    This most recent duplicate IP was caused by two phones fighting over the same IP. I just had to track down the MAC address and tada found the issue reset that phone and it worked again.


    Damn VOIP...I liked it better when I plugged the damn phone into a wall and it worked...now these things have to load up before you can use them.
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    what IP are tyou getting ?

    if it's the 169.254.x.x
    then you do't have DHCP enabled
    OR
    if it is a different set
    you might nee to set the DHCP scope correctly
    ie, only allow it to set IP's from x.x.x.20 - x.x.x.255, so you can allocate the first 20 to what you need or know

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    try setting the lease to a couple of hours...see if that makes a difference

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