Re: Keep a wlan active without Access Point?

[Ravindra Wankar <rwankar celoxis com>]

For one, I run apache with virtual host entries for the static IP. Secondly, it was just convenient. We develop web based apps and me and my colleagues need to access apache on each other's machines. Previously I could simply copy-paste a url to someone else in an email or a chat window. Now since I have to use localhost for myself, I have to keep changing "localhost" to my fully qualified hostname everytime I send the url to someone else.

-- R

Mattias Stahre wrote:

Uhm, not really actually.

Why do you want access that interface even when you are not connected to anything? 

You have your loopback interface (127.0.0.1) that is made to access stuff on your local computer,

with or without a network.

And you will probably have a entry in /etc/hosts that points your computer name to 127.0.0.1.

There is no sense whatsoever to have a NIC activated, when it is not connected to anything.

What is you are trying to do, that requires you to have *THAT* address available at all times?

And are you sure that you not just could use the loopback interface for it?

Greetings,

Mattias

On Jun 14, 2009, at 7:29 AM, Ravindra Wankar wrote:

Before I used Network Manager to manage my connections my wireless interface would be activated on boot. Without an access point I (obviously) could not connect to the net, but I could still ping my local machine with the static IP (192.168.0.100). With Network Manager managing my connection I cannot do this.

Does that make sense?
-- R


John Mahoney wrote:

Your email does not make much sense.  It may help if you explain what you are trying to accomplish.  The 127.0.0.1 always returns pings because its the loopback device.  If the wireless is not connected to an access point then I do not see why it would be in the routing tables.  If you want a useless device with an address look into creating a dummy device and assign it the address.

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John

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Ravindra Wankar <rwankar celoxis com> wrote:

I have a wireless connection with a static IP address 192.168.0.100. Everything works fine when I'm connected to an Access Point. Without the access point ping returns "connect : Network is unreachable". Using 127.0.0.1 works, but I'd rather have the static IP accessible. The routing table is empty. How do I setup Network Manager so the IP is available?

Thanks.
-- R
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