AR300M constantly pinging Google?

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So I’m back near my router now. I searched for references to gl_health in /etc/rc.local as per this post, but haven’t found any. The file exists in /usr/bin/gl_health but I find no reference to it. So my impression is that gl_health may not be the culprit, after all.

But I found this in /etc/config/mwan3:

root@GL-AR300M:/etc# cat /etc/config/mwan3 
config interface 'wan'
     option enabled '1'
     list track_ip '208.67.222.222'
     list track_ip '208.67.220.220'
     list track_ip '8.8.4.4'
     list track_ip '8.8.8.8'
     option reliability '1'
     option count '1'
     option timeout '2'
     option interval '5'
     option down '5'
     option up '3'

So I searched the forums a bit more, and it turns out this has been discussed (needed to know mwan3 was the culprit to find that thread…). Since I don’t have a multi-WAN setup, the solution was easy for me. I just needed to remove mwan3 as described here:

A reboot later I did a packet capture again, and now there are only NTP and DHCP requests left (both going to my home router). I’m a happy camper :grin:

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