On 04/13/2016 03:57 PM, James Knott wrote:
On 04/13/2016 06:31 PM, Freek de Kruijf wrote:
This is the culprit. You have to provide an IP address for the DNS also. With DHCP, you get also the value for the DNS. With a static address you do not get this address, so you have to provide that address with the other static values. DNS only maps a name to an IP address. You don't even need it, if you just use IP addresses. So, it shouldn't cause an interface to lose a configured static address.
I could always access webpages after the client router bridge power was lost with a static IP setup in YaST2 Networking if I were to type in any IP address. What didn't work was DNS, even though the name server in YaST2 networking was populated with the address of the primary router. If I set up a WDS AP on the primary router and WDS Station on the secondary instead of client bridge mode, then the router power can be lost and even with a static IP, DNS comes back and everything works fine. If the secondary router is in client bridge mode, DHCP is the only option that brings back DNS after a power loss. If in client bridge mode, after losing router power, I can get DNS back by switching from static to DHCP and back in YaST2 Networking. So thus far, this question is going unanswered. Client bridge mode works on a different network layer than WDS (WDS is layer 2), and client bridge mode works on layer 3,all clients will appear to the host under the same MAC address. So that may have something to do with it? I need somebody here with extensive knowledge about networking that may know the answer to this, as none of what has been presented thus far in the thread poses as a technical answer to the problem. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org