CitizenKain posted:

So this week we had the weirdest error I've seen in a long time. At one of our sites, they had grown to the point where we needed to expand their IP range, mainly because they have 1 printer for every 3 people. We have a few more like that, and we moved them from a /24 to a /23 without issue, and haven't had a problem.

About 3 weeks ago, a user was setting up a training room and some of the laptops couldn't get an IP address. They would try for bit, then fail handing out a 169.254 address. If you released/renewed a few times, they would usually connect. Since we just handle the switches and firewalls, there wasn't much we could do, the DHCP forwarder was working fine, dhcp-relay wasn't blocked and we could see traffic getting to the dhcp server. We kicked it back to our Windows group, they looked at it for about a day, then sent it back. We'd again point out that DHCP was fine for everyone else there, and it looked like it was only machines that were dipping into the higher pool that had issues. Ticket goes back, Windows guy sits on it for a few days, then says he's too busy.

We finally get someone onsite and get them to run wireshark for a bit, while connecting and reconnecting. He sends up the PCap file and my coworker starts digging though it. After digging though it, he finds that something is occasionally answering dhcp requests, not all the time, just kinda whenever. He gets the mac address, digs through the switches and finds it. Oddly enough, its showing up on 2 switch ports in 2 different vlans. We get the person onsite to go track it down, and oddly enough, its a video conference system. There are network cables plugged into both ports, only of them is actually used by the system, the other is just kinda there. Tech removes the second cable and go back to testing dhcp, works every time.

I dig into the video system and find that there is an option to do dhcp for the connected cameras, but that feature is off. There is no other option on the system to do anything else with that port. So at some point, someone plugged in both ports and somehow enabled a video conference system to be a lovely dhcp server.

anthonypants posted:

Also they should make hot CPU/memory add the default, my boss is terrified of that option and doesn't believe we should use it.

Bob Morales posted:

My old boss looked at me with a straight face and said you could run the same amount of users on a 48 port switch as you could with six 8 port switches, because 6 x 8 = 48

you ate my cat posted:

I work for one of the top 15 companies in the Fortune 500.

Bob Morales posted:

JUST HANG UP THE loving PHONE!

Sprechensiesexy posted:

Actually it was a wireless presentation device. Why would you manufacture one of those with DHCP server capabilities in the first place?

AlternateAccount posted:

poo poo PISSING ME OFF:

Dumb grumblings from the rest of the IT guys about how we need to get rid of the Macs in our environment because they're too much trouble to support and integrate with other things. Uhhhh... stop buying garbage product/system after garbage product/system.

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Ops person won’t let us restart the process until after the close so the screen will be down today

nielsm posted:

So if the crashed process has caused partial or complete stop in the production, and restarting it would allow production to resume at full capacity, it would still not be permitted? Because that would sound overly rigid.

anthonypants posted:

I'm deploying a virtual appliance and it turns out it's running CentOS 5, which was EOL'd at the beginning of the month.

anthonypants posted:

This morning I got a call from my boss that a DBA reported that a service wasn't working and to get into the office. Didn't get any emails or further information. Came into the office, boss was on a call with the DBA, I walked in and raised my voice at them for providing me with no information but still asking me to fix a problem. DBA got extremely butthurt that I would deign to talk to him like that. While on the call the DBA explains that he ran an upgrade on this service that might fix it, without telling us, and is stopping/starting the service, without saying anything. I don't know what he wants from IT, because it sounds like if he's going to fix these problems on his own then he should fix these problems on his own.

Bob Morales posted:

Dross posted:

I have two side by side 1080p 24" monitors at work, one over VGA and one over DisplayPort, and I can't tell a difference.

AlternateAccount posted:

Have you gotten to the REUT of the issue?

Bob Morales posted:

Manager at my old job bragged about the cot he kept in his office. "I worked a lot of all-nighters to get this company where they are"

silicone thrills posted:

*slaps a 75" LED screen up and tapes an apple tv to the back of it*

I GOTCHU

less than three posted:

Why so expensive? Can't you just put a bunch of $500 cheap rear end TVs from Best Buy on the wall and find some freeware and Make It Work?

Virigoth posted:

Why the gently caress is everyone out of PSUs? Damnit all.

bull3964 posted:

It's one of the reasons why I went with a SF450 for my new build, I could actually get it.

And you know what, it's fine. Ryzen 3700x, GTX1080, 32gb of ram, and 3 SSDs and it barely gets the fan moving under load full load (running Furmark and Prime95 simultaneously). Crazy how power efficient stuff is now.

Agrikk posted:

I hit the hardware performance limit on my music production PC and I’m in the rabbit hole of pc kit.