Bipac 8800AXL R2 reboot loses Raspberry Pi 4 DHCP lease

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Ksaro1
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Bipac 8800AXL R2 reboot loses Raspberry Pi 4 DHCP lease

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I reboot my Bipac 8800AXL R2 router on a weekly basis and I am finding the my new RPI 4 loses the wifi connectivity to this router on reboot.

I see the following entries in /var/log/syslog at the time of the reboot:

Mar 7 02:01:20 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: carrier acquired
Mar 7 02:01:20 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: IAID 32:ba:68:5b
Mar 7 02:01:20 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: adding address fe80::c68f:e6c6:7b0f:9f88
Mar 7 02:01:20 PiTv avahi-daemon[376]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface wlan0.IPv6 with address fe80::c68f:e6c6:7b0f:9f88.
Mar 7 02:01:20 PiTv avahi-daemon[376]: New relevant interface wlan0.IPv6 for mDNS.
Mar 7 02:01:20 PiTv avahi-daemon[376]: Registering new address record for fe80::c68f:e6c6:7b0f:9f88 on wlan0.*.
Mar 7 02:01:20 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: soliciting an IPv6 router
Mar 7 02:01:21 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: rebinding lease of 192.168.1.113
Mar 7 02:01:26 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: probing for an IPv4LL address
Mar 7 02:01:26 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: DHCP lease expired
Mar 7 02:01:26 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: soliciting a DHCP lease
Mar 7 02:01:30 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: using IPv4LL address 169.254.168.194
Mar 7 02:01:30 PiTv avahi-daemon[376]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface wlan0.IPv4 with address 169.254.168.194.
Mar 7 02:01:30 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: adding route to 169.254.0.0/16
Mar 7 02:01:30 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: adding default route
Mar 7 02:01:30 PiTv avahi-daemon[376]: New relevant interface wlan0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Mar 7 02:01:30 PiTv avahi-daemon[376]: Registering new address record for 169.254.168.194 on wlan0.IPv4.
Mar 7 02:01:33 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: no IPv6 Routers available

I then have to reboot the RPI 4 to re-connect to the WiFi. Is there anything I can do to have the RPI 4 automatically re-connect on reboot of the router?

I have been searching online but I can't find anything about this condition where the RPI 4 has WiFi connectivity working perfectly fine until the router is rebooted and then it fails to connect.
Ksaro1
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Re: Bipac 8800AXL R2 reboot loses Raspberry Pi 4 DHCP lease

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OK, I realised that I had only defined a single, guest SSID on my router's list of SSID's to be the wlan connection for my RPI4. I have since updated the wpa_supplicant.conf file to include 3 SSID's, including the primary SSID.

$ wpa_cli list_networks
Selected interface 'p2p-dev-wlan0'
network id / ssid / bssid / flags
0 Billion-AP-5g any
1 Billion-Guest1-5g any
2 Billion-Guest2-5g any

$ iwgetid
wlan0 ESSID:"Billion-AP-5g"

$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"Billion-AP-5g"
Mode:Managed Frequency:5.18 GHz Access Point: 60:03:47:39:84:F3
Bit Rate=292.5 Mb/s Tx-Power=31 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:on
Link Quality=58/70 Signal level=-52 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:451 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

So far now when my Billion 8800AXL R2 reboots the RPI4 re-connects successfully.

This still doesn't explain why before when I just had the Billion-Guest1-5g as my sole SSID that the DHCP lease was lost on reboot. But the above changes do stop the issue from happening for my situation now.
Ksaro1
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Re: Bipac 8800AXL R2 reboot loses Raspberry Pi 4 DHCP lease

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My issue has returned. Upon upgrading FW and rebooting the router I see the following in the RPI4 syslog file:

Mar 25 10:49:50 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: rebinding lease of 192.168.1.101
Mar 25 10:49:50 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: soliciting an IPv6 router
Mar 25 10:49:55 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: probing for an IPv4LL address
Mar 25 10:49:55 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: DHCP lease expired
Mar 25 10:49:55 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: soliciting a DHCP lease
Mar 25 10:50:00 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: using IPv4LL address 169.254.37.102

Again, the above entries seem to appear that the 8800AXL isn't renewing the lease.
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Re: Bipac 8800AXL R2 reboot loses Raspberry Pi 4 DHCP lease

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Ksaro1 wrote: Sat Mar 27, 2021 1:01 pm My issue has returned. Upon upgrading FW and rebooting the router I see the following in the RPI4 syslog file:

Mar 25 10:49:50 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: rebinding lease of 192.168.1.101
Mar 25 10:49:50 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: soliciting an IPv6 router
Mar 25 10:49:55 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: probing for an IPv4LL address
Mar 25 10:49:55 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: DHCP lease expired
Mar 25 10:49:55 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: soliciting a DHCP lease
Mar 25 10:50:00 PiTv dhcpcd[449]: wlan0: using IPv4LL address 169.254.37.102

Again, the above entries seem to appear that the 8800AXL isn't renewing the lease.
Please submit a ticket on the following link https://support.billion.uk.com/index.ph ... ets/Submit (I think I our engineers might need remote access to your router to check the route cause)
Ksaro1
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Re: Bipac 8800AXL R2 reboot loses Raspberry Pi 4 DHCP lease

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Ticket DQP-311-70948 submitted.

BTW - I'm UK based. So if engineers need to contact me I am on BST
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Re: Bipac 8800AXL R2 reboot loses Raspberry Pi 4 DHCP lease

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Ksaro1 wrote: Tue Mar 30, 2021 1:53 pm Ticket DQP-311-70948 submitted.

BTW - I'm UK based. So if engineers need to contact me I am on BST
Replies will be sent via our support system
Ksaro1
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Re: Bipac 8800AXL R2 reboot loses Raspberry Pi 4 DHCP lease

Post by Ksaro1 »

This issue hasn't occurred since installing 2.52.d17.
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