LAN stops working every now and then

@pita @r43k3n pita's problem happen to me to. and ping ip address not work too.

Did you try to disable IPv6 and see if the problem persists?

I didn't enable ipv6 on my system

Is this thread even alive?
Same / similar Problem here. Running
Reboot (17.01.2, r3435-65eec8bd5f)
on three WNDR4300 in a wired mesh environment (using ethernet cabeling as mesh backbone).
From time to time wired clients don't get there IP via dnsmasq, while WLAN clients are happily provisioned with IPs.
But: When setting IPs, gateway, DNS etc. for the wired clients manually, everything is running fine again. So...it could be a problem with dnsmasq.
First shot is reducing the MTU. IPv6 is disabled. I'll report my progess...

Greetz from Germany

Did disabling IPv6 solved your problem?

Had similar issues with OpenWRT AA and BB versions on TL-WR703N. Tried different versions and stuff. Now I am trying to disable serial console, as it might throttle the kernel when outputting something over serial just 115.2kbps. Try add kernel.printk = 0 to /etc/sysctl.conf as the instructions in below document says. This should disable console output over serial, unless you are debugging or know you use this, you don't need this.

Appriciate feedback if this happens to help for you.

Instructions for terminating console: https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/recipes/terminate.console.on.serial

Hi all.

I also have this issues and today I removed ipv6 related packages and removed wan6 settings from /etc/config/network.
I'll update this post with info if this resolves this problem in the coming days.

edit: Disabling IPv6 doesn't resolve this issue.

It seems, that they found the solution for the problem (rx buffer stall)
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/743498/
After all it was a hardware/silicone error, where small packets caused the stalling when hw. checksum offload was enabled as i understand.

thread they came up with the solution: https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=762

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WR1043NDv4 was discontinued in my country.
I guess they realised there was a hardware issue with it.

I thought they were discontinued b/c v5 is out since late 2017 (at least in Austria)!?

TP-Link Poland has WR1043ND listed as "End of Life".
Proof: https://www.tp-link.com/pl/products/details/TL-WR1043ND.html

So the whole series, not just the v4. Pity, :-/

By now, as a single-band device, the TL-WR1043ND series has become an entry level device, they probably focus on the TL-WR1043N series instead (non-detachable antennas) for price reasons, which probably makes sense.

Yeah... I don't think so.
The WR1043ND was selling well. It only costed 40$ but it had Gigabit LAN, while most competitors were still rocking 100 Mb/s. I think they realized there was a serious hardware issue and ended it entirely. The v4 wasn't even on the market for this long. The Archer C7 costs twice more for just 5 Ghz. Some people only needed the Gigabit LAN.

The TP-LINK TL-WR1043N v5 is not EOL -and except for the non-detachable antennas- pretty much identical to the TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND v4. For a company like TP-Link it probably does make sense converge two basically identical product lines at the lower end of their product range into one, especially as the previous entry level line for enthusiasts (e.g. the TL-WR841N(D)) has run out of flash/ RAM to be used with 3rd party firmwares.

Interesting. I don't think this model is available in Poland.