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alliv143 · 05-13-2009, 07:42 PM

Hello John, everything's ok now. I finally discovered the culprit behind my miseries! Someone in our network connected a router into the LAN (same model). I discovered the difference between the two via the mac address displayed in the setup. They tried to use the router as a dumb switch, unfortunately, they didn't even consider reconfiguring its setup first. Once I configured it's IP and disabled DHCP, everything went back to normal.

Thanks again for your help!

05-13-2009, 07:42 PM	#6 (permalink)
alliv143 Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 4 OS: winxp	Re: two router with same IP was connected to the same LAN Hello John, everything's ok now. I finally discovered the culprit behind my miseries! Someone in our network connected a router into the LAN (same model). I discovered the difference between the two via the mac address displayed in the setup. They tried to use the router as a dumb switch, unfortunately, they didn't even consider reconfiguring its setup first. Once I configured it's IP and disabled DHCP, everything went back to normal. Thanks again for your help!