Divested-WRT: No-nonsense hardened builds for Linksys WRT series

New user of Divested-WRT here.

Thanks for Divested -- just what I needed for my WRT1200-AC.

Installation went well. I'm trying to create a dumb access point, following roughly https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/dumbap using Luci.

Of course I go off script. On my LAN, I have a DHCP server to allocate IP addresses. So I thought: why allocate a static IP address, just let the WRT1200's WAN port continue to be a DHCP client.

Now: the WRT1200 asks for an IP address (DHCPDISCOVER in the log), my DHCP server gives it one (DHCPOFFER), but the WRT1200 does not accept it and just keeps asking. Every few seconds.

This seems like a bug. Is it expected behaviour?

With no IP address, I cannot get in to reconfigure the WRT1200. I guess that I need to reset it.

The WRT1200 is actually working as an AP.

Thanks for any help/suggestions.