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Spotter
Jun 13, 2017Aspirant
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...
JamesGL
Jun 23, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
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.
JamesGL
Jun 27, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi Spotter,
We’d greatly appreciate hearing your feedback letting us know if you need further assistance.
- SpotterJun 27, 2017Aspirant
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
- SpotterJun 28, 2017Aspirant
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
- sktn77aAug 23, 2017Virtuoso
Not familiar with the WNCE3001 but there should be an option in the setup to turn off getting time from the netgear server which, like a lot of other netgear services, no longer exists.