{"id":161,"date":"2009-08-08T11:13:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T01:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2010-09-23T14:16:04","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T04:16:04","slug":"i-keep-getting-an-%e2%80%9cip-address-conflict%e2%80%9d-error-at-the-bottom-of-my-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"I keep getting an \u201cIP Address Conflict\u201d error at the bottom of my screen."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This\u00a0a common networking problem which can result in intermittent communications\u00a0or unusable network operations.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #c63941;\">What is an &#8220;IP address conflict&#8221;?<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #c63941;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It&#8217;s when<\/span> <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>someone on your network is using, or trying to use, the same IP address as you.<\/strong> <!--more--><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #c63941;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When IP addresses are statically assigned (fixed) on the LAN (local area network) each computer should be\u00a0assigned a unique IP address. The conflict arises if the system administrator assigns the same IP address to more than one computer.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #c63941;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If your system administrator assigns a computer static IP address within the local network&#8217;s dynamic range\u00a0(DHCP)\u00a0and the same address is automatically assigned by the LAN <em>DHCP server,<\/em> a malfunction can occur when the server allows the same dynamic address to be automatically assigned to multiple computers.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #c63941;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Your router could have a faulty DHCP server causing IP conflicts. In which case you might have to upgrade the router firmware to resolve the problem.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #c63941;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #c63941;\"><br \/>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This\u00a0a common networking problem which can result in intermittent communications\u00a0or unusable network operations. What is an &#8220;IP address conflict&#8221;? It&#8217;s when someone on your network is using, or trying to use, the same IP address as you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[373],"tags":[39,42,41,40,38],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2665,"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/2665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}