[GUI-Talk] Network Conflicts in the Event Log

[Doug Lee]

Make sure you're not trying to use both Ethernet and wireless from that machine onto the same network. This normally shouldn't cause problems because DHCP is common and would hand out different addresses for each NIC, but I'm
pretty sure I've seen this happen before, probably when one system or another of assigning constant addresses to machines was in effect. An example that *would* cause this would be a setup where someone assigned the same IP
address to both your Ethernet and your wireless on the presumption that you'd only use one at a time. I may have made that mistake myself a time or two, when trying not to overcomplicate my router's packet forwarding rules. :)

On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 03:41:08PM -0600, Steve Jacobson via GUI-Talk wrote:
Hi,

There is a network conflict on my network which causes a warning message to
appear on one of my computers.  The warning tells me to contact my network
administrator and further advises me to look in the event log for more
information.  Well, I contacted my network administrator, who happens to be
me, and he didn't know any more about this than I did.  Since my network is
set up to assign IP addresses using DHCP, I have to assume that there is a
device somewhere that is using a static address.  My question is whether
anyone here can direct me to the correct section of the event log to find
these messages.  There are a huge number of messages in that log in several
different categories.  The warning message does not tell me anything about
where to look in the event log.  My thought is that possibly something there
would give me an idea of which device I should check.  Thanks for any help.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson



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