# How to delete offline device from clients list?

**URL:** <https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/how-to-delete-offline-device-from-clients-list/11908>\
**Category:** Router\
**Created:** [August 23, 2020, 9:07am UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/how-to-delete-offline-device-from-clients-list/11908 "2020-08-23T09:07:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![DeepAnger](https://forum-assets.gl-inet.com/user_avatar/forum.gl-inet.com/deepanger/32/3352_2.png) [@DeepAnger](https://forum.gl-inet.com/u/DeepAnger)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 9:07am UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/how-to-delete-offline-device-from-clients-list/11908/1 "2020-08-23T09:07:52Z")

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The list is growing constantly because some devices have a new address sometimes (and new devices added and removed). I’d like to be able to purge some or all devices from that list.

Is it possible ?

I have a brume mv100 running 3.104.

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**Author:** ![limbot](https://forum-assets.gl-inet.com/user_avatar/forum.gl-inet.com/limbot/32/1267_2.png) [@limbot](https://forum.gl-inet.com/u/limbot)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/how-to-delete-offline-device-from-clients-list/11908/2 "2020-08-23T13:04:42Z")

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You can only delete ALL clients sadly.

Instruction [here](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/removing-clients-from-dhcp-list/7627/8)

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**Author:** ![DeepAnger](https://forum-assets.gl-inet.com/user_avatar/forum.gl-inet.com/deepanger/32/3352_2.png) [@DeepAnger](https://forum.gl-inet.com/u/DeepAnger)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/how-to-delete-offline-device-from-clients-list/11908/3 "2020-08-23T15:22:29Z")

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Thank you. I did search a few keywords before asking but did not find that topic. I am not surprised that as soon as its not in the GUI it becomes quickly very complicated.

That’s probably why I bought ASUS routers after the Mikrotiks and why I bought a BRUME recently. I cannot bear a command line only equipment. Unfortunately, there is no perfect router (Mikrotiks can only handle L2TP/IPSec as a client with my VPN provider, ASUSWRT only OpenVPN with a very good GUI for policy in john9527’s fork).

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**Author:** ![WDXOC45](https://forum-assets.gl-inet.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@WDXOC45](https://forum.gl-inet.com/u/WDXOC45)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/how-to-delete-offline-device-from-clients-list/11908/4 "2020-09-23T13:06:37Z")

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Hi to everyone,

I have GL-MT300N-V2 - firmware 3.025  
BusyBox v1.28.3 - OpenWrt 18.06.1

I solved this issue by editing the file tertfinfo\_bak and rebooting the device:

DISCLAIMER: If you are not fully confident in what you are doing please dont do go further!!!

- login in into ssh shell
- edit /etc/tertf/tertfinfo\_bak
- delete offline device lines from the file
- save the file
- reboot the device

Enjoy.

[edit] other info in this post: [How to remove entries in the client list? - #7 by James13](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/how-to-remove-entries-in-the-client-list/9321/7)

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**Author:** ![bruce](https://forum-assets.gl-inet.com/user_avatar/forum.gl-inet.com/bruce/32/35649_2.png) [@bruce](https://forum.gl-inet.com/u/bruce)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 4:11am UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/how-to-delete-offline-device-from-clients-list/11908/5 "2025-10-29T04:11:31Z")

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