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can anyone help with an IP Conflict?
Can anybody help with this problem please.
We run 5 PCs, a printer and a modem thro an ethernet connection. All have been good for last couple of years but recently if 2 particular PCs are switched on the printer stops !! I’ve reloaded the modem software & each PC has its own IP Address but occasionally a message comes up saying there is an IP Conflict.
Any ideas what the problem maybe?
thanks
John -
4 Replies
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Can you not right click on the network icon on the lower right of screen then click repair?
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Yes.
The printer will have allocated a fixed IP and the PCs will be dynamic. What’s happening is that when you boot up your PCs they ask the router for an IP address. As you’ve not told the router to avoid allocating the IP address of the printer, it dishes it out to one of the PCs hence the IP conflict.
You can either tell the router not to allocate the IP of the printer or, you can fix the IP addresses of the PCs so all are unique.
John
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the two PC’s in question are sharing the IP number as the printer
Go To command prompt and type
ping then the ip number and it will reply
Good practice is to leave the PC’s to let DHCP assign IP number, much easier
Then in the router (normally default) the setting "allow router to be DHCP server" so it’s in charge.
Router normally would be 192.168.0.1 (fixed ip)Printer should be on fixed IP… say 192.168.0.200 (out the way)
All PC’s will then get their number from the router and plain and simple.
These numbers will be like 192.168.0.2 – 192.168.0.254If you add another computer or device, it will be ready in seconds
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sos forgot to say thanks for help with this. I think (hope) you’ve helped solve the problem.
thanks again
john
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