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Orbi RBR850 V3.2.18.1 DHCP Assigning IPs every few seconds
Related question: Why is model RBR850 not in the selection list for this post? I have an Orbi RBR850 with one satelite on firmware V3.2.18.1_1.4.14. I noticed that the logs were consitently filli...
I checked my 850 after I got home:
[Admin login] from source 192.168.1.101, Thursday, May 27,2021 16:57:05
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.108)] to MAC address , Thursday, May 27,2021 16:51:01
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.101)] to MAC address , Thursday, May 27,2021 16:37:41
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.109)] to MAC address , Thursday, May 27,2021 16:31:52
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.101)] to MAC address , Thursday, May 27,2021 16:31:28
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.108)] to MAC address , Thursday, May 27,2021 16:31:22
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.101)] to MAC address , Thursday, May 27,2021 16:29:32
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.104)] to MAC address , Thursday, May 27,2021 16:02:29
[Admin login] from source 192.168.1.101, Thursday, May 27,2021 06:49:55
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.101)] to MAC address , Thursday, May 27,2021 06:40:31
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.106)] to MAC address , Thursday, May 27,2021 06:39:29
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.106)] to MAC address , Thursday, May 27,2021 06:38:51
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.106)] to MAC address , Thursday, May 27,2021 06:36:43
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.105)] to MAC address , Thursday, May 27,2021 05:35:19
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.104)] to MAC address , Wednesday, May 26,2021 19:35:36
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.105)] to MAC address , Wednesday, May 26,2021 17:35:16
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.101)] to MAC address, Wednesday, May 26,2021 06:44:36
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.105)] to MAC address 7, Wednesday, May 26,2021 05:34:16
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.104)] to MAC address , Wednesday, May 26,2021 04:50:47
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.103)] to MAC address , Tuesday, May 25,2021 19:45:36
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.105)] to MAC address , Tuesday, May 25,2021 17:33:33
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.104)] to MAC address , Tuesday, May 25,2021 16:46:41
[Admin login] from source 192.168.1.101, Tuesday, May 25,2021 16:35:27
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.103)] to MAC address , Tuesday, May 25,2021 16:31:32
[Admin login] from source 192.168.1.101, Tuesday, May 25,2021 16:27:55
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.101)] to MAC address , Tuesday, May 25,2021 16:27:12
[Time synchronized with NTP server] Tuesday, May 25,2021 16:25:59
[Internet connected] IP address: 2, Monday, Dec 28,2020 14:00:50
These are not IP address reserved.
I see some repetetive entries, though not as sever as what your seeing...
JeramyK wrote:It certainly looks like a firmware issue. Nothing outside of the router itself is going to cause the list of 'Thursday, Jan 01,491926 -5:00:00' entries, which I assume is the default date when none is found.
Maybe if I have some time this weekend I will revert to a previous version of the firmware and see if that changes anything.
You don't happen to have a spare router on hand would you?
FURRYe38 I am going to guess that if you set it up to send you email when the logs are full you would also start seeing the "Thursday, Jan 01,491926 -5:00:00" entries (they only appear in the emailed results but increase after each mailing, filling up the logs).
I don't hink I have a spare wireless router. I might have an old linksys or something lying around.
I try and set up email logging this weekend.
If you have a spare router, you could use this router as your host router then block the NG update servers to prevent the Orbi from being auto updated, and then revert your Orbi back to older FW if you want to see if this issue happens in older FW.
What a puzzle! I collect the logs from my (original) Orbi and there are no log entries that start with Jan 01, or contain -5:00.
This is yet another example of the frustration customers face when their Netgear product behaves strangely and there is no documentation or customer service contact to explain it.
CrimpOn wrote:What a puzzle! I collect the logs from my (original) Orbi and there are no log entries that start with Jan 01, or contain -5:00.
This is yet another example of the frustration customers face when their Netgear product behaves strangely and there is no documentation or customer service contact to explain it.
One year and one month since I bought it and I can't get support outside of this forum. It is making me think about whether to go with Netgear next time around. Though it's tough since, when they work, they have some of the best products on the market.
I didn't roll the FW back, but I did try setting it to AP mode and allowing my cable modem to do all the work. This made the wireless connection *really* unstable. My work VPN connection would drop repeatedly throughout the day.
I tried going the other way, connecting everything through the Orbi and turning off all the features of my cable modem, but I found that I am also having trouble with Port Forwarding on the Orbi. It fails to forward ports to my wired servers, so that was a no-go.
I am back to connecting my wired devices to my cable router and setting static IPs for port forwarding, running the Orbi in router mode and having it assign IPs to wireless devices, and just dealing with the dumb entries in the logs. At least it is relatively stable this way.
At this point I am assuming something is wrong with the hardware.
