Hello.
We are experiencing a problem in our LAN.
Yesterday, suddently, all the PCs on the LAN reported a duplicate IP problem. This was happening everytime a client PC was trying to logon to the network. A dialog box was displayed that notified the user that the PC’s IP was used by another PC.
The problem was affecting all PCs thus I thought that it might be a network switch problem.
I switched off the main switch for 2 minutes and then I switched it on, again. This solved the problem but after 4 hours the problem occured again and we had to switch it off and on again.
Today, we did not experience the problem but I would like to ask if someone knows the root cause of such incidents.
Is it the switch, or PC network card?
Also, are there any equipment (hardware / software) tools that I can use in order to determine the root cause of the problem?
Thank you in advance.