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??: Christian Langanke <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> ?????? ?????????
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???????????: os2-wireless_users-owner <os2-wireless_users-owner@2rosenthals.com>
????: [OS2Wireless] WiFi Wiget XLan Monitor ??
????: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 19:40:05 +0200
????: os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com

Stanley Sidlov wrote:

New Question:

If you are switching back and forth using a 'wired' and 'wireless' cmd files such as those that Neil wrote. How should the new widget be configured for the card? A. No radio and DHCP?
B. Radio on and don't configure?
C. Radio on and DHCP?
D. Radio on  and Manually configure?


'Cause,  I had it manually configured and the script didn't work. I changed it to 'Don't Configure' and the script worked but the unit didn't get an IP address but did work when I changed it to DHCP AFTER running the script.....

That is because the WLAN monitor works around a problem with the DHCP client: it kills the DHCP client daemon before issuing another dhcp request. If you don't do this, the dhcp client just does nothing...

You may want to use my pgmcntrl utility (see sig for my homepage) to kill the client daemon within your script before issuing the dhcpstrt call.


BTW the only proper way to connect to the same machine (maybe your desktop system) both via a cabled _and_ a WLAN connection is to establish two different IP subnets (like 192.168.1.x and 192.168.2.x) and either (A) two nics in your target system or (B) usign another machine with two nics as a router or (C) using an alias TCP/IP address on the only nic of your target machine. AFAIK solution A is the only one if you want not only TCP/IP being the only network protocol used, but also NetBIOS...

In any way, using two subnets, you can use DHCP on both cabled and WLAN interface, but then you can't use the normal DHCP configuration withthe TCP/IP configuration notebook, as the IBM DHCP client can maintain only one interface simultaniously. In order to request DHCP configuration for more than one interface on a asystem, you need to serialize it, likely with a script performing the following steps (assume lan0 is cabled and lan1 is WLAN):

1 kill dhcpcd
2 call dhcpstrt lan0
3 wait for completion of configuration of lan0
4 kill dhcpcd
5 call dhcpstrt lan1

The problem is that there is no command line utility ready to use for step 3. For that a REXX script could pipe the output of "ifconfig lanx" to a temp file and parse, if the IP address is still 0.0.0.0 (incomplete configuration), and bails out of the loop, if it has been set.

Remember that both DHCP requests should return a default gateway, otherwise you will have none if the one returning a default gateway cannot be reached. The bad point on this is how to make sure that the faster subnet over the cable is preferred over the slower WLAN connection.I don't see a solution for this other than forgetting about DHCP automation and triggering DHCP configuration via two rpogram objects on the desktop, deactivation all DHCP configurarion within the TCP/IP configuration notebook as well as in the WLAN monitor.

And what is the default netmask?    225.225.225.225 or 225.225.225.0 ?  
I coded that according to my TCP/IP reference:
for class A adresses (first byte <=128) it is 255.0.0.0
for class B adresses (first byte <=192) it is 255.255.0.0
all other the code assumes class C addresses: 255.255.255.0

Unless somebody is using subnetting (ege. using subnet masks like 255.255.255.240) , the default netmaks should be sufficient.

bye, Christian

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