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Public IP assigned to Ethernet Ports
Hi Folks, An employee has an R7800 router which, when a device is plugged into the 4 ethernet ports on the router, it is assigned a public IP address. Joining to the WIfi Network on the device ge...
What firmware version is it running when experiencing this issue?
In my case, I haven't experienced this issue in a while(that I know of) since probably sometime in mid 2019 when I was on the firmware version listed in those threads. I've been keeping up with the many firmware updates that have been released and am currently on the latest (V1.0.2.82). Not necessarily suggesting they fixed the issue, but just observing.
I'm in a way convinced there is or was some type of zero-day vuln on this unit that was possible and causing this issue given the frequency and timing. Though I have no prood of such. If I recall correctly I only had this issue on LAN port 1 and not the others so I've stopped using that port and still continue to monitor for the DHCP errors in the windows event log. I was going to reach out to Netgear about the issue but I had the router for over a year at that point and only have 90 days of technical support included.I didn't see any other way to report the issue. Wasn't really interested in spending more money on support just to report the problem and probabaly not get anywhere with it. I'd rather just buy another router if this issues crops up again, given some of the other security and non security design problems I've observed with this router. Don't think it's going to be a netgear...