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DHCP flood in log.
The Orbi 970 with one satellite is struggling to provide reliable coverage in a small house. A single 970 unit failed to come anywhere close to the connectivity performance of my old Synology router,...
Would it be convenient to capture the actual DHCP conversation between the Orbi and some of the computers? (the Home Automation stuff lacks the ability to capture network traffic)
My tactic would be to install a packet capture program, such as Wireshark (free for Windows at https://www.wireshark.org) (We computer nerds use Wireshark all the time.)
(Windows includes a packet monitor [pktmon] and [netsh], but I have never tried them.)
Once some network traffic has been captured, a Display Filter of "dhcp" will show the DHCP packets and examining the actual DHCP query and response will show what is going on.
Why? My experience with Orbi routers and DHCP is mostly with the WiFi5 and WiFi6 models. Having no access to a 970 system, there is a chance that it does not process DHCP exactly the same as the earlier systems.
If you have "moved on", that's OK.