WAN IP address issue

[cirrusflyer]

For the past two weeks, I've had issues with the router losing WAN IP. I thought it was Verizon FIOS issue, but now, even after lots of troubleshooting with VZ, I can't get it to acquire a WAN IP address. It's a WNDR-3700 v1 with 1.5.10. It's been working fine for years. It seems all this started with 1.5.10. I swapped in my WRT 160N with Tomato USB and it's working fine. Ideas?

[BashfulBladder]

https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=41675

see if the clientid in /etc/config/network helps. I don't have an issue with FiOS. Could be a GPON or an ex-GTE issue (I'm neither).

[cirrusflyer]

Thanks. That looks like it might be the issue. Wonder why it just started happening with 1.5.10.

[cirrusflyer]

Dumb question, but how do I edit these settings?

[cirrusflyer]

https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/13581#no1

[BashfulBladder]

You ssh into your router & use an editor. vi comes pre-installed, but I use nano which you have to install:

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opkg update
opgk install nano

nano /path/to/file/to/edit

google the nano manpage to help you out. You might want to make a backup of the file if you aren't totally comforable:
cp /original/path/file.sh /tmp/file.bkup

[cirrusflyer]

Thanks. Any idea if and when this issue will be fixed in OpenWRT?

[cirrusflyer]

I made the changes here:

https://dev.openwrt.org/attachment/tick ... ne.2.patch

And it still won't pick up a WAN ip. Could the port itself have issues? How could I tell?

[cirrusflyer]

I tried another WNDR3700 with the same firmware and it does exactly the same thing. So it must be the issue with OpenWRT that's a bug.

[cirrusflyer]

I just learned something last night that affects this issue. Turns out, with FIOS, if you don't release the IP from another router first, then you have to wait 2 hours for a new IP if you shut down a working router. I've done this, and still had issues with 1.5.10, but I've gone back to 1.5.9 and it seems to be working fine.