DHCP
Small Office Monitoring: The 12 Checks That Catch Real Outages
09/23/2026
A small-office monitoring guide covering WAN, DNS, DHCP, router health, captive portals, APs, PoE, UPS, local services, backups, and alerting.
Captive Portal Triage: Connected, No Login Page, No Internet
09/23/2026
Find the first failed captive-portal layer, from association and addressing through discovery, authentication, access policy and upstream routing. Compare clients and preserve logs before changing settings; discovery and NAT behavior depend on the design.
DHCP vs DNS: What Breaks When Each One Fails
07/15/2026
Separate DHCP configuration faults from DNS lookup failures: inspect the client's address and gateway first, then test the configured resolver; a failed ping alone proves neither.