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stranghappening's avatar
Dec 21, 2016
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Can't connect through switch

I have a witch that connects to one of the LAN port on the router and until a few days ago all devices on the switch was able to get a valid IP from the router. Now, none of my devices are able to co...
  • stranghappening's avatar
    Dec 22, 2016

    Thanks everyone for the reply. I have finally found the issue that was causing the problem. It seems that the Directv Whole-home connector was causing the problem. I had only been debugging the switch and router since all the symptoms were related to them. Not sure what update was pushed, but the problem resolved itself once I removed that from my LAN on the router. It doesn't make sense on why it would cause a problem.

     

    As for all the suggestions made by everyone, I did try all of them prior to posting even with powering each item in sequence (router, switch, computer).