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donawalt
Dec 02, 2023Mentor - Experienced User
Public Service Announcement - DHCP requests still an issue
You may notice this if you have Apple devices in your home....if you check the logs, you will see a LOT of DHCP request entries in there for Apple products! Some have said it's due in part becaus...
FURRYe38
Dec 04, 2023Guru - Experienced User
SLK-Purdue might chime in on this as well. He did some checking into this as well.
We have brought this to NG attention.
- donawaltDec 04, 2023Mentor - Experienced User
Very interesting! It sure did look like DHCP protocol was being used for something out of the norm. In my router logs, DHCP messages are easily 95% or more of the messages - my original motivation to get of the unnecessary ones so I could really see what was happening with leases, see other messages more easily, etc.