GL-MV1000 losing Internet after 3 minutes

I’m trying to troubleshoot a simple setup where I have ethernet going into the WAN port from my provider (Ting, if curious) and then from the LAN port to a desktop computer. My ISP uses DHCP and I get Internet service on the desktop computer for exactly 3 minutes and then it fails. If I go into OpenWrt to Network → Interfaces and restart the the DHCP client for the WAN it will give a new 3 minute period of functionality.

Has anyone seen this before? I’m a loss and didn’t see any issues in the forums similar to this.

If fails because WAN has no connection or DNS is down?

Can you get the log?

Can you use Static IP settings and put the info you got from DHCP?

Thanks for writing back. Here is the system log, then failure of Internet connection after 3 minutes and then restarting DHCP on WAN interface to temporarily restore:

Sat Nov 6 00:31:48 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2543]: DHCPDISCOVER(br-lan) 68:5b:35:a3:e0:54
Sat Nov 6 00:31:48 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2543]: DHCPOFFER(br-lan) 192.168.8.217 68:5b:35:a3:e0:54
Sat Nov 6 00:31:48 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[2543]: read /etc/hosts - 4 addresses
Sat Nov 6 00:31:48 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[2543]: read /tmp/hosts/dhcp.cfg01411c - 2 addresses
Sat Nov 6 00:31:48 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2543]: read /etc/ethers - 0 addresses
Sat Nov 6 00:31:48 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2543]: DHCPDISCOVER(br-lan) 68:5b:35:a3:e0:54
Sat Nov 6 00:31:48 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2543]: DHCPOFFER(br-lan) 192.168.8.217 68:5b:35:a3:e0:54
Sat Nov 6 00:31:48 2021 kern.info kernel: [ 23.365586] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8821au
Sat Nov 6 00:31:49 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2543]: DHCPREQUEST(br-lan) 192.168.8.217 68:5b:35:a3:e0:54
Sat Nov 6 00:31:49 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2543]: DHCPACK(br-lan) 192.168.8.217 68:5b:35:a3:e0:54 family-iMac
Sat Nov 6 00:31:50 2021 daemon.notice procd: /etc/rc.d/S99gl_mv1000_wifi: ls: /sys/devices/platform/soc/soc:internal-regs@d0000000/d005e000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1:1.0/ieee80211/phy*/device/: No such file or directory
Sat Nov 6 00:31:50 2021 daemon.notice procd: /etc/rc.d/S99gl_mv1000_wifi: ls: /sys/devices/platform/soc/soc:internal-regs@d0000000/d005e000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1:1.2/ieee80211/phy*/device/: No such file or directory
Sat Nov 6 00:31:50 2021 daemon.notice procd: /etc/rc.d/S99gl_mv1000_wifi: ls: /sys/devices/platform/soc/soc:internal-regs@d0000000/d005e000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/ieee80211/phy*/device/: No such file or directory
Sat Nov 6 00:31:50 2021 daemon.notice procd: /etc/rc.d/S99gl_mv1000_wifi: ls: /sys/devices/platform/soc/soc:internal-regs@d0000000/d005e000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.2/ieee80211/phy*/device/: No such file or directory
Sat Nov 6 00:31:50 2021 daemon.notice procd: /etc/rc.d/S99gl_mv1000_wifi: ls: /sys/devices/platform/soc/soc:internal-regs@d0000000/d005e000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/ieee80211/phy*/device/: No such file or directory
Sat Nov 6 00:31:50 2021 daemon.notice procd: /etc/rc.d/S99gl_mv1000_wifi: ls: /sys/devices/platform/soc/soc:internal-regs@d0000000/d005e000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1:1.0/ieee80211/phy*/device/: No such file or directory
Sat Nov 6 00:31:50 2021 daemon.notice procd: /etc/rc.d/S99gl_mv1000_wifi: ls: /sys/devices/platform/soc/soc:internal-regs@d0000000/d005e000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/ieee80211/phy*/device/: No such file or directory
Sat Nov 6 00:31:50 2021 daemon.notice procd: /etc/rc.d/S99gl_mv1000_wifi: ls: /sys/devices/platform/soc/soc:internal-regs@d0000000/d005e000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.2/ieee80211/phy*/device/: No such file or directory
Sat Nov 6 00:31:50 2021 daemon.notice netifd: wan (2965): udhcpc: sending discover
Sat Nov 6 00:31:50 2021 kern.info kernel: [ 25.735486] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p3): recovery complete
Sat Nov 6 00:31:50 2021 kern.info kernel: [ 25.740720] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Sat Nov 6 00:31:51 2021 daemon.notice netifd: Network device ‘wan’ link is down
Sat Nov 6 00:31:51 2021 daemon.notice netifd: Interface ‘wan’ has link connectivity loss
Sat Nov 6 00:31:51 2021 kern.info kernel: [ 26.700113] mv88e6085 d0032004.mdio-mii:01 wan: Link is Down
Sat Nov 6 00:31:51 2021 daemon.notice netifd: wan (2965): udhcpc: received SIGTERM
Sat Nov 6 00:31:51 2021 daemon.notice netifd: Interface ‘wan’ is now down
Sat Nov 6 00:31:51 2021 daemon.notice netifd: Interface ‘wan’ is disabled
Sat Nov 6 00:31:51 2021 daemon.notice netifd: Interface ‘wan’ is enabled
Sat Nov 6 00:31:51 2021 kern.info kernel: [ 26.828129] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wan: link is not ready
Sat Nov 6 00:31:51 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[2543]: exiting on receipt of SIGTERM
Sat Nov 6 00:31:51 2021 user.notice dnsmasq: DNS rebinding protection is active, will discard upstream RFC1918 responses!
Sat Nov 6 00:31:51 2021 user.notice dnsmasq: Allowing 127.0.0.0/8 responses
Sat Nov 6 00:31:52 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: started, version 2.80 cachesize 150
Sat Nov 6 00:31:52 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: DNS service limited to local subnets
Sat Nov 6 00:31:52 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt no-DBus no-i18n no-IDN DHCP DHCPv6 no-Lua TFTP conntrack ipset auth nettlehash DNSSEC no-ID loop-detect inotify dumpfile
Sat Nov 6 00:31:52 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[3532]: DHCP, IP range 192.168.8.100 – 192.168.8.249, lease time 12h
Sat Nov 6 00:31:52 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: using local addresses only for domain test
Sat Nov 6 00:31:52 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: using local addresses only for domain onion
Sat Nov 6 00:31:52 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: using local addresses only for domain localhost
Sat Nov 6 00:31:52 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: using local addresses only for domain local
Sat Nov 6 00:31:52 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: using local addresses only for domain invalid
Sat Nov 6 00:31:52 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: using local addresses only for domain bind
Sat Nov 6 00:31:52 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: using local addresses only for domain lan
Sat Nov 6 00:31:52 2021 daemon.warn dnsmasq[3532]: no servers found in /tmp/resolv.conf.auto, will retry
Sat Nov 6 00:31:52 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: read /etc/hosts - 4 addresses
Sat Nov 6 00:31:52 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: read /tmp/hosts/dhcp.cfg01411c - 2 addresses
Sat Nov 6 00:31:52 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[3532]: read /etc/ethers - 0 addresses
Sat Nov 6 00:31:53 2021 kern.info kernel: [ 28.932542] mv88e6085 d0032004.mdio-mii:01 wan: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow control rx/tx
Sat Nov 6 00:31:53 2021 kern.info kernel: [ 28.942002] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wan: link becomes ready
Sat Nov 6 00:31:53 2021 daemon.notice netifd: Network device ‘wan’ link is up
Sat Nov 6 00:31:53 2021 daemon.notice netifd: Interface ‘wan’ has link connectivity
Sat Nov 6 00:31:53 2021 daemon.notice netifd: Interface ‘wan’ is setting up now
Sat Nov 6 00:31:53 2021 daemon.notice netifd: wan (3741): udhcpc: started, v1.30.1
Sat Nov 6 00:31:53 2021 daemon.notice netifd: wan (3741): udhcpc: sending discover
Sat Nov 6 00:31:55 2021 daemon.notice procd: /etc/rc.d/S99gl_route_policy: uci: Entry not found
Sat Nov 6 00:31:55 2021 daemon.notice procd: /etc/rc.d/S99gl_tertf: killall: gltraffic: no process killed
Sat Nov 6 00:31:56 2021 user.notice wireguard: wireguard client start
Sat Nov 6 00:31:56 2021 daemon.info procd: - init complete -
Sat Nov 6 00:31:57 2021 daemon.notice netifd: wan (3741): udhcpc: sending discover
Sat Nov 6 00:32:00 2021 daemon.notice netifd: wan (3741): udhcpc: sending discover
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.notice netifd: wan (3741): udhcpc: sending select for 64.99.227.134
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.notice netifd: wan (3741): udhcpc: lease of 64.99.227.134 obtained, lease time 28800
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.notice netifd: Interface ‘wan’ is now up
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: reading /tmp/resolv.conf.auto
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: using local addresses only for domain test
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: using local addresses only for domain onion
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: using local addresses only for domain localhost
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: using local addresses only for domain local
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: using local addresses only for domain invalid
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: using local addresses only for domain bind
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: using local addresses only for domain lan
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: using nameserver 216.30.180.21#53
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: using nameserver 216.30.180.22#53
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[3532]: exiting on receipt of SIGTERM
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 user.notice dnsmasq: DNS rebinding protection is active, will discard upstream RFC1918 responses!
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 user.notice dnsmasq: Allowing 127.0.0.0/8 responses
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: started, version 2.80 cachesize 150
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: DNS service limited to local subnets
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt no-DBus no-i18n no-IDN DHCP DHCPv6 no-Lua TFTP conntrack ipset auth nettlehash DNSSEC no-ID loop-detect inotify dumpfile
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[5501]: DHCP, IP range 192.168.8.100 – 192.168.8.249, lease time 12h
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using local addresses only for domain test
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using local addresses only for domain onion
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using local addresses only for domain localhost
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using local addresses only for domain local
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using local addresses only for domain invalid
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using local addresses only for domain bind
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using local addresses only for domain lan
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: reading /tmp/resolv.conf.auto
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using local addresses only for domain test
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using local addresses only for domain onion
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using local addresses only for domain localhost
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using local addresses only for domain local
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using local addresses only for domain invalid
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using local addresses only for domain bind
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using local addresses only for domain lan
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using nameserver 216.30.180.21#53
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using nameserver 216.30.180.22#53
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: read /etc/hosts - 4 addresses
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: read /tmp/hosts/dhcp.cfg01411c - 2 addresses
Sat Nov 6 00:32:34 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[5501]: read /etc/ethers - 0 addresses
Sat Nov 6 00:32:36 2021 user.notice firewall: Reloading firewall due to ifup of wan (wan)
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.notice netifd: wan (3741): udhcpc: sending renew to 216.30.180.81
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.notice netifd: wan (3741): udhcpc: received SIGTERM
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.notice netifd: Interface ‘wan’ is now down
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.notice netifd: Interface ‘wan’ is disabled
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.notice netifd: Interface ‘wan’ is enabled
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.notice netifd: Interface ‘wan’ is setting up now
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.warn dnsmasq[5501]: no servers found in /tmp/resolv.conf.auto, will retry
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.notice netifd: wan (14257): udhcpc: started, v1.30.1
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.notice netifd: wan (14257): udhcpc: sending discover
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.notice netifd: wan (14257): udhcpc: sending select for 64.99.227.134
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.notice netifd: wan (14257): udhcpc: lease of 64.99.227.134 obtained, lease time 28800
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.notice netifd: Interface ‘wan’ is now up
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: reading /tmp/resolv.conf.auto
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using local addresses only for domain test
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using local addresses only for domain onion
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using local addresses only for domain localhost
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using local addresses only for domain local
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using local addresses only for domain invalid
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using local addresses only for domain bind
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using local addresses only for domain lan
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using nameserver 216.30.180.21#53
Sat Nov 6 14:11:12 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq[5501]: using nameserver 216.30.180.22#53
Sat Nov 6 14:11:15 2021 user.info mwan3rtmon[2267]: Detect rtchange event.
Sat Nov 6 14:11:15 2021 user.notice firewall: Reloading firewall due to ifup of wan (wan)

Did you change router’s time in the middle? It is connected mid night and reconnected 14:11.

I didn’t change the time. I had the unit powered off (since it was breaking things) so perhaps I accidentally grabbed some of the syslog entries from the prior run. I can confirm that on the GL-MV1000 that it gets the same IP address and DNS info over DHCP as I see on my Netgear Orbi when it is in router mode. This picks up Ethernet over a basic Adtran from Ting to convert fiber to Ethernet. I’ve opened a support ticket with them as well in case they have any ideas.

I tried a factory reset in hopes that this would resolve it, but the same thing is happening. I’m trying to reach their support group to see if there any other ideas.

I worked with the support group and we found the solution. I clones the MAC address of my Netgear Orbi router/mesh wifi system onto the GL router and then it worked consistently fine.

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In this case, if you do not use mac clone, you may try reboot your ISP router/modem. If you just got a cable with DHCP, you may call ISP to asking them to reset their machine for you.

Further note on the solution here. The MAC clone worked for about 48 hours. I called my provider (Ting) and they needed to clear the MAC address of the previous router. Once that was done the GL.inet router works wonderfully. I hope this explanation helps anyone else who encounters this issue.

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