Ubiquiti AP enters reset state but never leaves

andrewmemoryblog@gmail.com (Andrew's Memory Blog) — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:11:31 -0700

I did something dumb recently. I had a network failure at my ISP, so I had to kill my dhclient and restart it. After restarting, everything seemed cool - until I reset my Ubiquiti AP. At that point, the AP entered the “Restarting” state and never came out.

After a few minutes of poking around on the Ubiquiti management screen, I saw this:

Apparently I killed off my DHCP server too. Oops.

One restart of the DHCP server later, my AP was back online (it detected when the DHCP server started). Some day I really should put the AP on its own static IP. That’s what I get for being lazy…

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Ubiquiti AP enters reset state but never leaves