On a hospital campus, a laptop is set with the wrong default gateway, and WAN tests sourced from the office agent stay green. What should be corrected?
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Short Explanation
Blaming the highway does not help when your own driveway gate opens the wrong way. You correct the default gateway on that laptop, because the office WAN tests are already green and the bad setting is on the client. A circuit swap, a BGP alert, or a data-center agent move leaves the laptop pointing at the wrong next hop.
Full Explanation
The laptop cannot leave its own subnet correctly when its default gateway is wrong, and that setting lives on the client. WAN tests from the office agent stay green, so the wide-area path those tests use is not the fault the laptop is hitting. Replacing the WAN circuit that the office agent already shows as healthy spends the change on a path the green tests have cleared. A BGP alert for a session the green office tests do not implicate watches routing state that this evidence does not blame, and it does not rewrite the gateway on the laptop. Moving the data-center agent into a different rack changes a vantage point that is already able to test the WAN; it does not repair the next hop configured on the laptop. Exam caveat: when the local device setting is wrong and the office path test is healthy, keep the fix on the device the data names. Operational check: read the laptop gateway against the subnet router for that clinic VLAN, then confirm the office agent tests remain green so the WAN is not reopened.