The Rogue in the Wires — Part 2: The Rogue DHCP Crisis

An investigative breakdown of the second half of a real‑world network outage. In this episode, we explore: Packet captures revealing dual DHCPOFFERs Rogue DHCP behavior and race‑condition dominance Switch‑level tracing and MAC address identification How the rogue device was physically located Remediation steps and restoring proper DHCP service The executive SWAT briefing that closed the incident This is Part 2 of a two‑part series. Part 1 introduced the symptoms, early diagnostics, and the first clues that something was deeply wrong. A podcast companion is coming soon.