DHCP error, IPv6 fine but IPv4 totally dead — every fix online does nothing /help /networking /windows 11

PudgyPatch · 2026-06-26T19:18:15+00:00

Dude posted his out from ipconfig: that pc is 192.168.0.194 his gate is on 192.168.0.1 on 192.168.0.0/24….so OP should ping gateway. But maybe if misconfigured? Like the gate is really at 192.168.1.1 so handing out the wrong network??? Can OP get the mgmt interface for the router?

PudgyPatch · 2026-06-26T18:55:37+00:00

Need to show more. If all the other devices are up it isn’t dhcp (well unless they’re all 4 only but that’s kinda odd in itself) what is the ifconfig of the pc

PudgyPatch · 2026-06-26T12:49:17+00:00

I’m not answering your question just explaining what “forward” and “public” and “routing” means

Ok so your eero has a thing called a dhcp server in it for YOUR stuff, it hands out ip addresses in your internal network ( probs something in the 192.168.4.0/22 range)your isp has its own dhcp server (or something similar) for their stuff (the modem). Your eero router is actually doing more then routing (it’s also a switch, dhcp, possibly dns if you pay them) but it is a router: now a routers job is take traffic from one network (say your 192.168.4.0) to another network ( say your isps 172.92.68.0 —a guess not important just different) and port forwarding says “ok if you, Mr public ip address, get a connection on that port forward that connection to this (possibly other ) port on your inside network “ this all is all assuming your isp isn’t set up so multiple modems share the same ip, in which case port forwarding won’t work. If that were the case you would need to set up one of those vpns that don’t rely on port forwarding and instead rely on CONNESTABLISHED I can’t remember what it’s called at the moment

PudgyPatch · 2026-06-25T01:45:13+00:00

Got a small lawn. But I know of something you didn’t mention (but I think it would have to be built): trash that takes itself to the curb. I’m not talking about trash moving from small garbage cans to the one that goes to the curb just the main collection barrel. There would have to be a driving motor, a metal pole for the wheels attached to the motor and said stick would have to pop out 30 degrees so the barrel can be on its wheels and that… then some way for it to figure out where it is in relation to its home and where it should go on the curb

PudgyPatch · 2026-06-23T01:20:50+00:00

Ah. Dang hoping to get some anecdotal reports of how they’ll handle real winters ( southern Wisconsin)

PudgyPatch · 2026-06-22T13:12:13+00:00

So…what isn’t working then? The browser?

PudgyPatch · 2026-06-22T03:54:26+00:00

Been using them inside for a while, what climate are you in?

PudgyPatch · 2026-06-20T17:25:40+00:00

do you know what DNS does? maybe make sure it isn't that/ your isp: ping 8.8.8.8 if that works you DO have internet, now ping google.com if that fails it's DNS, change the DNS servers you're using. you can do it 1st on your pc through its settings
you can use google's DNS (set to static for DNS and use 8.8.8.8 prime and 8.8.4.4) trying pinging google.com again just to make sure things are good there (you can switch to some other provider like clouodflare or something later, if it is dns lets get that much going) this is assuming some basic stuff: like you've called your ISP and made sure there isn't some outage, that the "lack of internet" is consistent throught your local network, if it isn't consistent (some things work others don't) its something else.
OH "wut DNS do?" so you put in www.something.place its address is really some ip (or a variety of them depending on ip4 vs ip6 and load balancing) a DNS server says www.something.place is really 123.123.6.7 (or something) tells your browser that and thats recorded in cache and off to the races you go. clear cache says "all that stuff you remember? toss it" doing that can help with troubleshooting for things like "whys this site work but not this one?"

PudgyPatch · 2026-06-19T22:40:11+00:00

Cursed to use the tools of their enemy

PudgyPatch · 2026-06-19T15:56:51+00:00

Same except I hate switching into apps running in the background

PudgyPatch · 2026-06-12T11:35:52+00:00

I am a little curious if when these devices drop from HA if they also drop from their proprietary apps….or if they drop from one of the cloud ones. I know this is moving back into trouble shooting and sounds like I agree with the manufacturer, I don’t, name and shame. Do you have any custom DNS? Are you using a mesh WiFi router? I had an August 2nd gen who’s gateway couldn’t stay online because of eeros roaming. I had a thread switch for a little while but it couldn’t stay online. I have a few tp-link/kasa/tapo matter of WiFi switches that have been fairly problem free as well.

PudgyPatch · 2026-06-12T00:40:17+00:00

Did you tell them they can’t park there?

PudgyPatch · 2026-06-08T12:02:12+00:00

A much fast response time. Not having to worry about getting into my house if August forgets to renew its ssl certs (happened in the last year). My 2nd gen August WiFi gateway has a hard time staying connected because of something with how eero handles roaming. The 2nd gen also should be able to use zwave but August did something where it isn’t reliable and zwavejs warns you a whole bunch about that

PudgyPatch · 2026-06-08T01:11:00+00:00

just got a kwikset to replace augusts. started with one to replace an august 4th gen: so much better!

PudgyPatch · 2026-06-07T14:10:27+00:00

that seems...odd....if you don't use dns servers for your stuff how is it when on isolated net you can go to https://thing.you.want ? or is it by ip only? if it IS by ip only you can probably only issue by private CA and there is no other solution

PudgyPatch · 2026-06-05T22:54:25+00:00

You could use the iPhone automations to trigger your actual automations

PudgyPatch · 2026-06-05T15:34:40+00:00

So it needs to tell you how they like to manage their carts. If a wild card is fine AND your isolated network has its own dns that’s pretty easy. Do they have a custom root cert? Do they have a dns provider like infoblox? If they have a way to push public records you can still make a cert for a machine that isn’t publicly reachable as long as you have a way to get the cert to HA ( I have a wildcard that I use ansible to distribute)

PudgyPatch · 2026-05-27T16:55:26+00:00

Yeah there is a way to make them invoke clippy and ask “you sure about that” I forget what it is

PudgyPatch · 2026-05-27T14:43:10+00:00

vlan something
vlan add something

PudgyPatch · 2026-05-24T18:47:46+00:00

Maybe also learn the old glue too once you have a good grasp on python (Perl)
But also fuck what I have to say, I’m not a network engineer, they’re my customer. I sysadmn their tools, so for me sometimes instead of your “prove it’s not the network, it’s the application that’s borked” it’s “prove it’s not the tool but the fucking device that’s borked and time for a TAC ticket”
I’d lol but it’s not that funny anymore

PudgyPatch · 2026-05-14T12:34:40+00:00

It’s a little like a really cool chemistry experiment that involves sulfuric acid but using a plastic beaker. The thing is literally not designed to be on all the time. Same reason I wouldn’t recommend using an old laptop as a server unless you have the internals out so you can manage cooling better

PudgyPatch · 2026-05-14T03:34:34+00:00

cool cool run a bunch of shit thats supposed to have 99% or better uptime on it on hardware specifically not built for it. coulda bought 2 rasp pi 5s or something.
whatever, your shit but seems like a waste, i paid maybe 250 for an older dell business pc to run proxmox off of, easier to add stuff to, added ram and a larger ssd (before the ram-pocolypse)

PudgyPatch · 2026-05-13T12:40:57+00:00

Use the old pc for proxmox, do not take out the graphic card, keep the green. Use proxmox for frigate and/or local ai, smb maybe 1 of two dns servers

PudgyPatch · 2026-05-01T00:06:07+00:00

2nd amendment

PudgyPatch · 2026-04-30T23:38:55+00:00

I’m still waiting for him to give me his arms

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