matthew green <m...@eterna23.net> writes: >> I needed to ifconfig up the interface being used by hostapd, once I did > > don't feel bad. i don't understand the rules about when things are > up or not by default and it seems that this problem happens about > every 5 years for me...
Indeed. I think the rules are: assigning an IP address does an implicit up otherwise, it doesn't happen in hindsight, not having any implicit up would probably be better, but obviously not reasonable to change now.
