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Orbi router pings netgear.com every ~6 seconds
I have no clue why this is necessary but it's jamming up my DNS logs in PiHole since it results in some 14k netgear.com lookups a day. Maybe it's being used as a connectivity test? I blocked the domain and the router still reports internet connectivity. I grabbed a pcap to see what was being sent and as far as I can tell it's just pings. It's 98B of data for each echo request/response so just for fun... (600/hr\*98bytes\*24h)\*2 bytes = 2.8MiB/day of data for every Orbi sold.C3000 ping issues
Recently, about every 20 minutes to an hour my ping will jump from around 30 to 600. If I restart the router/modem the ping will go back to normal, but not until then, so I know it is a problem with the C3000 and not something with my ISP. Also I get a large ping spike once around every 30 seconds where my ping will spike to 600 and then return again. I had this router/modem since May and it has just recently started doing this. Any idea for a solution?Duplicate ICMP replies from Xbox
Was trying to troubleshoot some network errors after my spouce had TWC "assist" with the cable modem. After sorting out the issues TWC caused (Side rant here: (reset the modem, disabled firewall, removed ip filtering, and turned on a DHCP service despite being a bridge modem, reset password to the default, and generally left everything wide open) I noticed that I was getting duplicate icmp from my XBox one. 64 bytes from 10.10.1.90: icmp_seq=418 ttl=128 time=4.973 ms 64 bytes from 10.10.1.90: icmp_seq=418 ttl=128 time=4.996 ms (DUP!) When I pull up more detail in wire shark I can see the replies as duplicates to the request. From my review of the details the only differences in the duplicate request is the message identification, which makes sense as it is a separate reply. More troubleshooting steps I have taken trying to isolate the issue: - Created XBox specifc port forwarding and then removed. - Cleared arp aches on all networked devices with tables - Removed all other devices from the network - Reset the Xbox - Changed dhcp ip reservation schemes - Turned UpNP on/off - Restarted all devices (had to say it) Am stumped. What am I missing?
