sometimes after boot the WiFiBox dhcp gives no ip-address in AP mode

[companje]

logread says:
Thu Jan 1 00:07:37 1970 daemon.warn dnsmasq-dhcp[1013]: no address range available for DHCP request via wlan0

this solves the problem:
/etc/init.d/dnsmasq reload

can we autodetect the failure and use this as a workaround?

[companje]

This seems to be a good workaround for now. Place the code below in /etc/init.d/dhcpcheck. And enable it with /etc/init.d/dhcpcheck enable

#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common                                                                                              

# start after networking                                                                                              
START=99                                                                                                              

LOGGER="logger -s -t dhcpcheck -p 6"                                                                                  

boot() {                                                                                                              
        logread | grep "192.168.10.249, lease time 12h"                                                               
        if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then                                                                                         
                $LOGGER "Applying workaround for dhcp/dnsmasq problem https://github.com/Doodle3D/doodle3d-client/issues/66"
                /etc/init.d/dnsmasq reload                                                                            
        else                                                                                                          
                $LOGGER "dhcpcheck completed successfully"                                                            
        fi                                                                                                                                                            
}  

[woutgg]

Closing, the workaround should be sufficient for now.