[wellylug] Configuring a WiFi & Cable home network

[Adam Bogacki]

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I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that it was a relatively trivial fix.

I had become used to configuring a static eth0 manually but
became a bit confused when a younger brother enthusiastically
descended on the house with a wifi router ..

I had previously set up eth1 to serve dhcp leases to thin client via ltsp.
I connected eth1 to the router, deleted ltsp, reinstalled dhcp and
occasionaly had  wifi working  simultaneously with cable  .. but it
kept dropping out.

eth1 was intermittently recognised by 'ifconfig -a' and finally it
dawned on me that I should manually set it up in the same way I had eth0.

ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

route add 255.255.255.0 dev eth1

dhcpd eth1

service dhcpd start eth1

/usr/bin/dhcpd eth1

.. did the trick and now dhcpd lease get served on the wifi router at
startup.

So far, so good.

Cheers,

Adam Bogacki,
afb at paradise.net.nz


 


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