Router blinking green even though internet is ok - it should also do a HTTP ping

Beryl GL-MT1300 user here

I recently noticed, in a hotel, that my router kept blinking green, even though internet works fine.

After investigating, it appears that the hotel's network blocks ICMP requests. I guess the router is trying to ping some host on the internet to check is internet is available, and failing to do so it wrongfully assumes that there's no internet.

On my laptop (Linux/Gnome) I had also a visual indicator to detect if internet is available (through a ping on 8.8.8.8). I modified it to also do an HTTP ping (https://www.hping.org/) before concluding that internet isn't available.

I think the router should implement something similar : it's very disturbing to see it blink green even though internet is working.

You might just disable the interface tracking at this time in the hotel.
This Multi-WAN - GL.iNet Router Docs 4 should fix it.

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Thanks

I still had an older firmware version (3.216), which didn't have the multi-WAN entry.

Upgrading to the latest version did the trick.