I'm pretty sure I haven't seen this in the FAQ. I don't like DHCP, I consider it useful in temporary situations only. I've had a few machines on a LAN with fixed IPs for years and it all works fine.
Along comes a cell phone and it becomes my internet gateway, at least most of the time. Typical Android anyway, I've seen 2 of them work the same way. When I turn on the WiFi hotspot it becomes 192.168.43.1. It assigns IPs from a pool that includes 192.168.43.34, 192.168.43.72, 192.168.43.134 I am running Debian on this one but I'm not sure to what degree I can circumnavigate the Android hotspot. I could just turn it off I suppose and do my sharing from within Linux. If I turn on Android's WiFi it expects to connect to an AP, which I could set up. Trying to bridge to a WiFi interface on an OpenBSD machine that's in a DHCP arrangement gives an error. The first machine to connect to the phone always gets assigned 192.168.43.34 and the phone's IP (and gateway & DNS) is always 192.168.43.1 I'd like to have some fixed IPs just because I want to be able to FTP and SSH from one machine to another. The phone's rooted, I suppose I could try to find and modify its equivalent of dhcpd.conf. There isn't one but I can fiddle with how it's set up at least to some degree. WiFi seems the only reasonable way in and out of this thing, the USB hardware doesn't support "host mode" and only works for some things. So anyway, anybody else deal with this situation? Alan -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
