Hi list! I could need some help.
Long story (if you don't want to hear, scroll down): For six months a year I'm attending a university of cooperative education and although I pay 1000€ a year for infrastructure and stuff like that its services for students are a big joke. Especially its WLAN-hotspot isn't nearly up to the job. Because I have an UMTS-card my idea was to set up a personal area network (PAN) via bluetooth and act as a router to support my friends during the WLAN-outages. Most of the job is already done but I have problems setting up a DHCP-server and the network configuration. Because the virtual ethernet interface only exists when a connection is established, dhcpd doesn't start from the init-script and, although I haven't tried it yet, normal network config shouldn't fare any better. When the last client disconnects, all the configuration is gone and when someone reconnects, I have to call "ifconfig bnep0 192.168.4.1" again. Short question: How do I automate the configuration of network interfaces and related deamons when the whole interface keeps appearing and disappearing out of the clear blue sky? I don't think ifplugd will be up to the job (haven't tried it though). Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp
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