We'll start with the phenomena, such as slow access to a server or to another device, slow access to the internet, and all the pings that you don't get replies to.
- When you have slow access to a network device, one of the problems may be that the IP address of your device collides with another address. To verify this, ping the IP address.
In some devices, when their address collides with an identical address, the driver will simply be turned off (the little symbol at the bottom-left corner of the screen in the Windows operating system). In other devices, you will not get any notification of a conflict, and this is the place where problems will arise.
- Type arp -a in the command-line interface (CLI). Use the command ...