firewalla orange - WISP - periodic red blinky

Been seeing random drops on the WISP wan.

usually it would renegotiate and come back okay, but recently (last two days) when it's pure WISP (no eth) - it's requiring a full device reboot.

devices internally still show connectivity and internetwork off the orange is functional at that point.
Soon as the device is rebooted, problem goes away.

checking the wifi router 1 step up from the orange - the next hop is seeing the client disappear - other clients directly on that network appear to not have issues (that being said, I haven't fully checked that it isn't the path above it having the issue - next steps are there for me).

running 1.982 (a4e70578)

in the past, i saw wan disconnects on the wisp, but it had always came back after 30s-1m

in this case, just poof and no reattempt.

tried 2.4 and 5ghz bands on that same wifi ssid and see the same issues repeating. It is tricky to nail down as it's random (and usually happening when I'm offsite. 'Hey wife, can you go pop that cable for me' is turning into a common thing in our household ;))

Curious if anyone has found a workaround to loop it into reconnecting (i'm fine with the periodic outage, just hate having a full down scenario for prolonged periods while i drive my ass over there :P - worst case I can drop on an eth connection but was hoping to not do that if i could to avoid pulling a cable since... i'm lazy)

Don't think it's a problem with the hardware or anything like that (and to be fair, our internet is spotty at best of times) - but it does seem to be isolated to the wifi device above it so death from above could be the source of killing it off somehow.

but not reconnecting / reattempting seems strange (previous behavior seems contrary to what's happening now)

Firewalla CM

May 11, 2026 21:27
Edited

Hi there,

Are you using IPv6? If so, try disabling it (on both WAN and LAN) and see if it helps.

Also, check if your Orange is operating on a DFS channel for 5GHz. If so, you can manually change the channel to something without DFS, or disable DFS completely. See here: Advanced Wi-Fi Settings

Let me know if any of these help.

sokosplat

May 11, 2026 21:34

rgr. will check it out later tonight when I get there :) thanks for the tips. I'll let ya know.

May 12, 2026 18:41

So far, 20ish hours with no blip after first mod of disabling ipv6.
I'll let it sit another week then flip it on again if it doesn't come back to see if I can get it to happen again.

Thanks !

May 12, 2026 19:02

Glad to hear! Please keep us updated.

firewalla orange - WISP - periodic red blinky

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