MX Help • Wifi connection cloeses after Gateway went missing for a while

Hi,

I have a rather unusual setup: Gateway/DHCP-server is in a vehivle outside of the office. It has a status "website" that I want to monitor in office.
I used P2P bridge to get the signal into the building, there I set up an accesspoint.

Works so far for 2 years, PC gets IP from gateway inside vehicle. With a windows PC. Now I'm swithing to MX Linux and have a problem:

When the vehicle leaves for a while, it takes its DHCP server with it.

With windows, the PC in the office stays connected (the accesspoint is still broadcasting the SSID and keeping connection), the browser just waiting for connection. When vehicle gets back, the status site in browser updates again.

But with MX Linux, the wifi connection is shut down after a while. When I manually connect, it even asks me for the wifi key (that was stored before).

So it seems MX linux cancels the connection because there is no DHCP or gateway. How can I stop it from doing so? The status website is designet that it never has a timeout, I just need the persistent wifi connection.

My version:
MX Linux 23.3 KDE x64

Greetings Alex

Statistics: Posted by sammawatt — Sun Jul 21, 2024 3:08 pm

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