How I spent my day...

[draggar]

One of my stores had an issue with their printer last week so someone from the vendor (yes, a very large company that has the same name as an old piece of artillery that uses gunpowder and large metallic balls) went out to "fix" it.

By "fixing" it I meant he decided to swap the IP address and Gateway address. No, there was no issue with those before.

For example:

The IP was supposed to be 100.100.100.101 (not accurate at all)
The Gateway address was supposed to be 100.100.100.1 (again, not accurate at all, well, except the last .1).

He decided to reverse the two.

Anyone want to guess what happened????
I'm sure someone will get it right!

 

[GUA]

It exploded? I have nooo idea..

 

[draggar]

That would have been fun and the multifunction center would have lived up to its name, but no.

 

[Johnn]

Smart move. So now the printer acts as a router.

 

[draggar]

Johnn's got it right. The printer had an identity crisis and thought it was a router and spent the past week fighting with the real router for dominance.