From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266246AbUG0Fel (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 01:34:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266273AbUG0Fel (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 01:34:41 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:1260 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266246AbUG0Fej (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 01:34:39 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Joshua Kwan Subject: Wireless devices and route settings Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:34:35 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-68-126-193-193.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, So, I have a wireless interface on a 'guest' Linux box (running 2.6.7-rc1, not bothered to compile a new kernel yet.) It is a fair distance away from the access point and sometimes goes out of range. Usually it can go out of range and come back in range without the user noticing anything has happened. But once in a while, when the connection is especially poor, the interface will go down and lose its default route. When it comes back, it retains its IP, but does not keep the default route. This makes the internet unusable on this machine until i cycle ifdown/ifup which I cannot rely on guests to do. There is no daemon watching the network interfaces at all that might be doing this (I'm pretty sure), so I was hoping linux-kernel might know. Here's to a prompt solution.. -- Joshua Kwan