IP address conflict

[tmy]

Hi everyone,
I was wondering if there are general steps one could go through to eliminate or understand the warning that sometimes pops up saying there is an IP address conflict.

I have been meaning to bring this subject up for awhile, if anyone can explain this and steps to resolve this issue I would be appreciative

I have had people think it is someone trying to use their network

thank you

tmy

[Timster]

If your router is set to dhcp then that means that your router is set to handle and assign all devices a different ip that connects to it. Computers that connect to that same network that have the network settings set to dhcp rely on that router to assign it a ip address. Using dhcp is designed to avoid ip assigning 2 or more devices the same ip address (IP Address Conflict). If a computer connects to to that same network that has a static ip setting then that takes away the responsibility of the router to assign that ip of that computer  and that computer could very well have the same ip as a device that the router assigned another device on the network. This would result in a ip conflict error. Hope that makes sense.

[tmy]

(09-10-2015, 09:24 PM)Timster Wrote:  If your router is set to dhcp then that means that your router is set to handle and assign all devices a different ip that connects to it. Computers that connect to that same network that have the network settings set to dhcp rely on that router to assign it a ip address. Using dhcp is designed to avoid ip assigning 2 or more devices the same ip address (IP Address Conflict). If a computer connects to to that same network that has a static ip setting then that takes away the responsibility of the router to assign that ip of that computer  and that computer could very well have the same ip as a device that the router assigned another device on the network. This would result in a ip conflict error. Hope that makes sense.

Hi Timster,
thank you for your great explanation, that was a great way to explain what is going on
I hope others have found this helpful as well

tmy