Massive amount of icmp packages GL-AXT1800

Fenrir · 2022-11-11T03:34:36.493Z

New GL.Inet user here but not new to OpenWrt and never seen this on vanilla OpenWrt nor on the Turris flavor of OpenWrt but my GL-AXT1800 is constantly pinging Google which I really want to have disabled.

I’ve tried disabling mwan3 but it keeps pinging, even completely removing mwan3 doesn’t stop it from pinging 8.8.4.4. Completely removing mwan3 does break the admin panel though, disabling it only gives me a message that the internet can’t be reached but could live with that if the massive amounts of icmp packages towards Google would stop.

Every topic I’ve seen about this issue advises to remove mwan3, unfortunately this doesn’t seem to work on the GL-AXT1800/Version: 4.0.3

Another issue I have is that the plugins don’t work like discussed here:

GL-AXT1800 Slate AX Unable to access plugins Technical Support for Routers

I have never been able to access the list of plugins on my GL-AXT1800 Slate AX. When accessing the plugins page, a toast is displayed that shows “-2,Network unreachable”. I have updated to the latest stable firmware and saw same results, updated to Kernel version 5.4 and firmware 4.1.0 release 5 in beta as saw same results, tried connecting GL-AXT1800 Slate AX on a different network and same results. Can you provide the URL that the plugins are accessed so that I can determine if it is being …

I can view the plugins when disabling mwan3, they don’t update but at least it shows a list with plugins.

yuxin.zou · 2022-11-11T07:45:15.343Z

The reason for ping 8.8.4.4 is to detect network connections. If you have updated to version 4.1, you can find this setting in Multi-WAN. You can change it to another IP or simply turn it off.

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Fenrir · 2022-11-11T22:12:40.367Z

Thank you for your help Yuxin, I’ve updated to 4.1 and have indeed the option to disable it in the admin panel, but disabling it there gives the same result as previously disabling mwan3 through Luci.
It keeps pinging 8.8.4.4, changing the IP however works to stop it from pinging the google dns servers, so I’ve changed the IP for now and changed the track interval to 30min.
Disabling completely doesn’t seem to work though, then it reverts back to the default behavior of pinging every 5 seconds to 8.8.4.4

K3rn3l_Ku5h · 2022-11-11T23:02:54.544Z

Sounds like it could be a OpenWRT mwan3 issue and should be posted on their bug board.

yuxin.zou · 2022-11-14T08:02:25.817Z

Fenrir:

I’ve updated to 4.1 and have indeed the option to disable it in the admin panel, but disabling it there gives the same result as previously disabling mwan3 through Luci.
It keeps pinging 8.8.4.4, changing the IP however works to stop it from pinging the google dns servers, so I’ve changed the IP for now and changed the track interval to 30min.

We will try to reproduce and fix this issue, could you please tell us.

Have you disabled status tracking for all interfaces?
Does the pinging of 8.8.8.8 stop if you disabled the LED in System → Overview?
By what method do you determine that it is still pinging 8.8.8.8?