No WAN ip after reboot

[11freddy]

Wish I had better news...

I replaced the etc/config/network file with the updated code and rebooted... nothing blew up but the behavior did not change from before.
For good measure I power cycled everything (modem+router), it came up fine. I rebooted the router and confirmed power cycling the modem or unplugging the RJ45 still allows the router to get an IP.

What now? Is there more we can do or we go back to the OpenWRT ticket and say the fix doesn't seem to work and there are three of us with the issue? Is there a hope this would be looked at sometime?

Thanks.

[Lantis]

Hmm. That's disappointing.

Yea you're back off to openwrt and that ticket for support I believe.
Sorry mate I'm out of knowledge.

[11freddy]

Thanks again for your help...
I have updated the thread at OpenWRT https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/18680 and added a link back to this one.
Is there anything else I could/should do to attract some attention there? I don't know anything about how that forum works.

Thanks.

[chaos40]

Hi!

Any progress on this topic?

BR,
Chaos40

[zatokan]

I'd just like to say that I too have this issue. TP-Link Archer C7 v2, no WAN IP on router restart. Has a solution been found?

[jaylweb]

I have a TP-Link Archer C7 v2 with Gargoyle Version 1.10.0 having the same no WAN IP on router restart issue. The easiest way to resolve is to unplug the NIC from the WAN port and plug it back in. However, difficult to do if you are not at home AND definitely not a permanent solution.

The code that Lantis provided solved my issue, although, I had to make some changes because my ISP uses a cable modem and requires DHCP. I used WinSCP to connect to the file system and then made a duplicate of /etc/config/network as network.sav. I then modified /etc/config/network as follows.

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config interface 'loopback'
   option ifname 'lo'
   option proto 'static'
   option ipaddr '127.0.0.1'
   option netmask '255.0.0.0'

config globals 'globals'
   option ula_prefix 'fd15:1715:442e::/48'

config interface 'lan'
   option ifname 'eth0'
   option force_link '1'
   option type 'bridge'
   option proto 'static'
   option netmask '255.255.255.0'
   option ip6assign '60'
   option ipaddr '192.168.0.1'
   option dns '208.67.220.220 208.67.222.222'

config interface 'wan'
   option ifname 'eth1'
   option proto 'dhcp'
   option keepalive '3 5'
   option ipv6 '0'

config interface 'wan6'
   option ifname 'eth1'
   option proto 'dhcpv6'

config switch
   option name 'switch0'
   option reset '1'
   option enable_vlan '1'

config switch_vlan
   option device 'switch0'
   option vlan '1'
   option ports '2 3 4 5 6'

config switch_vlan
   option device 'switch0'
   option vlan '2'
   option ports '0 1'
   

After saving the newly updated /etc/config/network, I performed a reboot in the web browser. Lo and behold, the WAN IP came back! I did this several more times just to be sure as I was skeptical! LOL

The only difference from the OP that I can tell is that the OP had version 1.9 and I have version 1.10.0.

Thank you Lantis for finding that gem.

~jaylweb

[CBx86]

Hey!
What you change from default config?