Network security question

You might post about this over in the Orbi app forum. 

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi-App/bd-p/en-home-orbi-app

Do you have Armor or Circle enabled? Try disabling those if you do. 

Good Luck. 

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NGNewbie wrote:

Something called "C2 Development" keeps popping up under my Network connections and even though I turn it off on the ORBI App next day a couple new connections with the same name pop up. I do not have any reports of security breaches but I do not know what this is.

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The next time one of these appears, it might be useful to copy down the device MAC address and then use one of the many manufacturer lookup web sites to discover which company the ethernet adapter belongs to.  For example:

https://www.wireshark.org/tools/oui-lookup.html 

Products like Orbi use a database of "Organizationaly Unique Identifier" codes to report devices they encounter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizationally_unique_identifier 

Another possibility is the latest trend in WiFi where devices create random MAC addresses each time they connect to a WiFi network (as a security measure).  A recent firmware update to iPhones and iPads, for example, has a setting where they can use their actual hardware MAC address or create one of these "pseudo" addresses.  One of my Raspberry PI's got set to do this and it drove me crazy trying to figure out why every time I turned it on it got a new IP address that was NOT the IP address that II told the Orbi to give it.  Once I disabled that "feature", my life got a lot easier.