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Logs are full of DHCP messages
Hi! I have my logs send to my email and usually I get about one a day. But sometimes a weird situation where my logs are filling up with DHCP messages for a particular device and I get an email every...
I have to correct myself from what I said earlier, it's not the iPhone 6s+ and things getting a bit spooky ...
I checked on the iPhone 6s+ we have the network connection and see it's has a different IP. Hhm I thought that's strange because the Netgear Genie app showed me the iPhone having that IP address. So I do a referesh in the Genie app and yep it updates the iPhone to something else and then shows me the 192.168.1.108 is some unknown device which is kind of greyed out.
Here is where it get's spooky. The Genie app sees that device though it's greyed out. In the GUI if I look under "Attached Devices" there is no device that has the 108 IP address. I cannot ping the device as well but if I do an "arp -a" it shows that device listed (same host the Genie app is running on).
So I am confused? I have somehow a dormant device that doesn't exist really exist on my network that is generating this DHCP messages?
Update: After doing a refresh of the of the "Network Map" in the genie app those dormant devices disappeared and the DHCP messages have stopped!
I can only conclude that those DHCP messages have something to do with the network map in the genie app and it's refresh but I have no idea why or how?