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Orbi excessive pinging
Does anyone else see their Orbi satellites doing excessing pings to the default gateway? In my firewall log I am getting thousand of them and I don't know why. Or where to disable it. Joe
j0ebeer wrote:Does anyone else see their Orbi satellites doing excessing pings to the default gateway? In my firewall log I am getting thousand of them and I don't know why. Or where to disable it.
Am interested in which "firewall log" this is. When Orbi is configured as a "router", it IS the gateway, and satellites never communicate past the Orbi. So, this Orbi must be configured as an Access Point, in which case every device on the network, including the satellites, gets an IP address from whatever device is using DHCP to assign IPs (the gateway?) One would expect that satellites would then do things like ARP requests, pings, etc. against the gateway. "Thousands" sounds like a lot, but I have been surprised at how "chatty" an ethernet network is.
CrimpOn wrote:
j0ebeer wrote:Does anyone else see their Orbi satellites doing excessing pings to the default gateway? In my firewall log I am getting thousand of them and I don't know why. Or where to disable it.
Am interested in which "firewall log" this is. When Orbi is configured as a "router", it IS the gateway, and satellites never communicate past the Orbi. So, this Orbi must be configured as an Access Point, in which case every device on the network, including the satellites, gets an IP address from whatever device is using DHCP to assign IPs (the gateway?) One would expect that satellites would then do things like ARP requests, pings, etc. against the gateway. "Thousands" sounds like a lot, but I have been surprised at how "chatty" an ethernet network is.
The firewall log is my Fortinet sending logs into Splunk. From a search of the past 4 hours the 2 satellites have ping my FW gateway over 6500 times. My guess is its default behavior and I'm probably stuck with it. I would call it poor coding.