[arachne] Re: Arachne and wifi

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Christof,

You are finally connecting to the WiFi with Arachne.

Fantastic !!!!

Now as to....

> When I inserted BOOTP into arachne.cfg or wattp.cfg, it took Arachne
> considerable time to get connected (similar to the time until I get a
> feedback from DHCP server in Linux).

What is probably happening is that Arachne/Wattcp are first trying BOOTP
and when BOOTP fails... they automatically try DHCP which succeeds.

Sooooo.... let's try 'forcing' DHCP directly.

--- in arachne.cfg ---
[tcp/ip]
IP_Address WATTCP <-- 'forces' the use of only the settings
                       in the TCPconfig file
                       but just to be sure that no TCP/IP settings
                       in arachne.cfg could possibly 'get in the way'....
                       leave all 5 of these settings totally blank
                       here in arachne.cfg
NameServer
AltNameServer
Gateway
AltGateway
Netmask

;now 'point the way' to the CFG to be used.....
TCPconfig WATTCP.CFG
_________________________________________________________________

---- and then nothing more than this one line in wattcp.cfg ---
my_ip = dhcp
_______________________________________________________________

There..... that will 'force' DHCP and nothing else.

If all goes well, all of the following items will be grabbed
from the WiFi Modem/Router via DHCP

1) IP address for your computer
2) IP address of the DNS
3) IP address of the GateWay
4) IP address of the netmask

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