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Topic: TP-Link 1043ND - DHCP does not work correctly

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hello,
i am using a 1043nd-router as access point (operating system: OpenWrt Barrier Breaker 14.07 / LUCI)
For a short time if i enable wlan on my mobile phone or tablet pc (android-, windows-os), the ip adress will not be allocated (message on mobile phone: "try to allocate ip-adress ..."
If i assign a fixed ip-adress for each mac-adress, it does work (luci -> DHCP and DNS -> Static Leases).
why the router is not able any more, do assign a random ip-adress automatically?

We will need some more info to be able to help with this.  Please check your system logs for errors when you experience a dhcp failure.

here is the system log.
38:f7:3d:c3:ae:a3 is the mac adress from my wlan device, which get no ip-adress

Thu Nov 23 09:36:01 2017 daemon.info pppd[17910]: Exit.
Thu Nov 23 09:36:01 2017 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan' is now down
Thu Nov 23 09:36:01 2017 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan' is setting up now
Thu Nov 23 09:36:01 2017 daemon.info pppd[17928]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
Thu Nov 23 09:36:01 2017 daemon.info pppd[17928]: RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.8p compiled against pppd 2.4.7
Thu Nov 23 09:36:01 2017 daemon.notice pppd[17928]: pppd 2.4.7 started by root, uid 0
Thu Nov 23 09:36:16 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0-1: STA 38:f7:3d:c3:ae:a3 IEEE 802.11: disassociated
Thu Nov 23 09:36:16 2017 daemon.warn pppd[17928]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Thu Nov 23 09:36:16 2017 daemon.err pppd[17928]: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery
Thu Nov 23 09:36:16 2017 daemon.info pppd[17928]: Exit.
Thu Nov 23 09:36:16 2017 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan' is now down
Thu Nov 23 09:36:16 2017 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan' is setting up now
Thu Nov 23 09:36:16 2017 daemon.info pppd[17946]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
Thu Nov 23 09:36:16 2017 daemon.info pppd[17946]: RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.8p compiled against pppd 2.4.7
Thu Nov 23 09:36:16 2017 daemon.notice pppd[17946]: pppd 2.4.7 started by root, uid 0
Thu Nov 23 09:36:17 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0-1: STA 38:f7:3d:c3:ae:a3 IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to inactivity (timer DEAUTH/REMOVE)
Thu Nov 23 09:36:18 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0-1: STA 38:f7:3d:c3:ae:a3 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Thu Nov 23 09:36:18 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0-1: STA 38:f7:3d:c3:ae:a3 IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 3)
Thu Nov 23 09:36:18 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0-1: STA 38:f7:3d:c3:ae:a3 WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN)
Thu Nov 23 09:36:31 2017 daemon.warn pppd[17946]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Thu Nov 23 09:36:31 2017 daemon.err pppd[17946]: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery
Thu Nov 23 09:36:31 2017 daemon.info pppd[17946]: Exit.
Thu Nov 23 09:36:32 2017 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan' is now down
Thu Nov 23 09:36:32 2017 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan' is setting up now
Thu Nov 23 09:36:32 2017 daemon.info pppd[17961]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
Thu Nov 23 09:36:32 2017 daemon.info pppd[17961]: RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.8p compiled against pppd 2.4.7
Thu Nov 23 09:36:32 2017 daemon.notice pppd[17961]: pppd 2.4.7 started by root, uid 0
Thu Nov 23 09:36:45 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0-1: STA 38:f7:3d:c3:ae:a3 IEEE 802.11: disassociated
Thu Nov 23 09:36:46 2017 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0-1: STA 38:f7:3d:c3:ae:a3 IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to inactivity (timer DEAUTH/REMOVE)
Thu Nov 23 09:36:47 2017 daemon.warn pppd[17961]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Thu Nov 23 09:36:47 2017 daemon.err pppd[17961]: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery
Thu Nov 23 09:36:47 2017 daemon.info pppd[17961]: Exit.
Thu Nov 23 09:36:47 2017 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan' is now down
Thu Nov 23 09:36:47 2017 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan' is setting up now
Thu Nov 23 09:36:47 2017 daemon.info pppd[17976]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
Thu Nov 23 09:36:47 2017 daemon.info pppd[17976]: RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.8p compiled against pppd 2.4.7
Thu Nov 23 09:36:47 2017 daemon.notice pppd[17976]: pppd 2.4.7 started by root, uid 0
Thu Nov 23 09:37:02 2017 daemon.warn pppd[17976]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Thu Nov 23 09:37:02 2017 daemon.err pppd[17976]: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery
Thu Nov 23 09:37:02 2017 daemon.info pppd[17976]: Exit.

is dnsmasq running?  not a single message from it in the log you posted.

Barrier Breaker is very old, please consider upgrading.

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