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ARP Attack from Nest thermostats
In the Orbi logs i see entries coming from a couple of my Nest thermostats. "[DoS Attack: ARP Attack] from source:" nest IP I contacted nest to ask about this and they said its the first they...
vingear wrote:"[DoS Attack: ARP Attack] from source:" nest IP
Is this literally what the log shows, or have you edited out the MAC address and put "nest IP" in its place?
An ARP conflict can happen when two devices think they have the same IP address.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARP_spoofing
It might be worth a minute to look through the Orbi Attached Devices web page and verify that the devices on it have the IP addresses that they should. I really wish that Netgear published information explaining what these Denial of Service reports mean. I sometimes think that OpenWRT that Orbi is built on had this firewall code baked into it and no one at Netgear has any idea what it does. (I am old and cynical.)