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Spotter
Aspirant
Jun 13, 2017

WNCE 3001 Thousands of DHCP requests to time-g.netgear.com

Hi All, i hope this is the correct forum. I am hoping that somebody can help with my problem. I recently set up Open DNS, out of interest more than anything , so i could see the traffic going via m...
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JamesGL
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jun 23, 2017

Hi Spotter,

 

The time-g.netgear.com is the NTP server of NETGEAR. It is normal since NETGEAR devices is connecting or requesting time update through the NTP server.

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    JamesGL
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Jun 27, 2017

    Hi Spotter,

     

    We’d greatly appreciate hearing your feedback letting us know if you need further assistance.

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      Spotter
      Aspirant
      Jun 27, 2017

      Hi, Thanks for the reply, sorry i missed it.

      Is it normal to be making thousands of requests a day though, surely it doesnt need to check the time that often? 

      It totally clogs up my router Log when i am trying to view what other connections are being made as all i get are pages of the netgear request.

      Can I turn it off ?

      Thanks

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        Spotter
        Aspirant
        Jun 28, 2017

        To be more precise, in a 2 hour 20 minute window i have 1712 DHCP requests that look like the below, that cant be right can it ?

         

        2017 Jun 28 19:01:40 DHCP server notice Send DHCP OFFER to EC:71:DB:EA:4B:79 with IP 192.168.1.2 

        2017 Jun 28 19:01:40 DHCP server notice Receive DHCP DISCOVER from EC:71:DB:EA:4B:79