Network issues (RPi5)

Hi,

I'm struggling to get a log that shows anything (yet) but I've recently upgraded from RPi4 to RPi5, and I can't seem to get everything stable.

I'm using ethernet with powerline networking. I think the issue is with the powerline, although other devices connected handle it better.

Basically, LibreElec drops the IP address, and never recovers it. That's a problem because the RPi is running TVHeadEnd to serve the rest of my house, as well as recording TV to my NAS.

Currently I've switched to WIFI, and it all seems more stable, which would again point to the powerline as the underlying cause. But it would be good if the RPi could gracefully recover the IP address rather than not, or sometimes hanging.

Has anyone else seen similar issues? I'm using using an LE12 recent nightly build.

Best wishes,

Mark

Thanks. So I've switched from wired to WIFI and the problems have gone away, although there is some buffering on live TV which is not ideal.

It does look like the powerline stuff is a bit flaky and drops the connection, but then the RPi5 doesn't recover it very well. It's a bit of a niche setup, so it probably won't affect too many people.

What I find when it happens is there is no IP address showing in settings. Sometimes LibreElec then seems to hang completely (no response to the UI - obviously without the network I can't ping it.

It would be better if it did recover the network gracefully, but I don't know whether that is possible.

Right, as a follow-up, it seems that this may have been related to ipv6. Or potential issues with my network and ipv6 at least.

I was finding that the RPi5 was having a network connection, but my router showed it having a private IP address. I've now turned off ipv6, so it uses ipv4, and also manually set the IP address on the Pi. Hopefully that will be stable.