Debugging wifi drops on Apple devices

[anon67730766]

Remove the OpenBSD router and try to install or use a router with OpenWrt with the latest recommended version.

Maybe you have this same bug with the OpenBSD router, which has already been fixed in OpenWrt 23 onwards:

Bug (Click to read)

@Pico

@wolfgangrupprecht

stuck at the "obtaining IP address" phase

Familiar issue to me. It looks like the problem is still present in 22.03.5.
For me, the problem has been around in several releases so far.
it occurs kind of random to me, sometimes weeks, sometimes months without issues. And then suddenly some kind of DHCP resource seems to deplete and devices which still have a valid lease will still work, while all devices that reconnect from then on seem offline, as if they do not get an IP via DHCP. my workaround so far: reboot main router.

Found other people with older similar sounding posts outside of OpenWRT:
https://www.mail-archive.com/dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk/msg15776.html

@anon11662642

The same problem happens to me about "obtaining IP address" and the culprit is dnsmasq, but I solved it by replacing dnsmasq with odhcpd + Unbound on the main router (no dumb AP) following the steps in this guide:

@elan

1. First DNS hijacking to intercept DNS traffic.
2. Replacing dnsmasq with odhcpd and Unbound doing the following in this guide:

• Remove dnsmasq and use odhcpd for both DHCP and DHCPv6.
• Use Unbound for DNS.

3. Follow the Command-line instructions to install and enable Unbound.
4. Install Unbound web interface and test.
5. Install luci-app-adblock .

You just have to copy all the commands from the guides and paste at the same time into your SSH Client and voila.

@anon11662642

I'm sure that the culprit is dnsmasq, because when the "obtaining IP address" error happens, it is temporarily fixed by restarting the "dnsmasq" service on the main router (no dumb AP) (temporarily because the problem occurs again later).

In OpenWrt 22.03.5 the problem is solved by replacing dnsmasq with odhcpd + Unbound on the main router and in OpenWrt Snapshot the problem is fixed.

This problem is years old (you can type "obtaining IP address" in google) and it has already been fixed but only in OpenWrt Snapshot.