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I have a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian Wheezy. The /etc/network/interfaces is set up to give the Pi a static ip on start up. However, when connection is dropped the Pi won't re-establish a connection automatically. I have a script that restarts wlan0. However, the Raspberry Pi has a different ip address than the static ip given to it. This breaks the port forwarding I’ve done to access the Pi from outside the network.
It looks as if my interfaces is not set up quite right. The Pi can be accessed from two ip addresses within the network, one is the static address I defined while the other is not. When wlan0 is restarted, a dynamic ip address is given to the Pi, but not the static address.
Here is my /etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet manual
auto wlan0
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168.1.11
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
wpa-ssid "ROUTER NAME"
wpa-psk "PASSWORD"
auto wlan1
allow-hotplug wlan1
iface wlan1 inet manual
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
Here is the script I'm using to reset wlan0:
#!/bin/bash
SERVER=192.168.1.1 #Ping the router
ping -c2 ${SERVER} > /dev/null
#If the exits status from the ping is not 0 (failed)
if [$? != 0]
then
#Disable wlan0 and re-enable it
sleep 2
ifconfig wlan0 down
sleep 2
ifconfig wlan0 up
fi
Any help is appreciated! Thanks!
Edit:
After looking around with ideas found in this thread, I found /etc/init.d/networking restart does everything I need.So the new script is
#!/bin/bash
SERVER=192.168.1.1
ping -c2 ${SERVER} > /dev/null
if [ $?!=0 ]
then
/etc/init.d/networking restart
echo "Reconnecting!"
fi

Answer 1

I looked around a bit and it seems you may be able to make sure it is set in your wifi script after ifconfig wlan0 up (I've also had to implement such a script on every raspberry pi setup I've ever made due to wifi inconsistencies)
if [$? != 0]
then
#Disable wlan0 and re-enable it
sleep 2
ifconfig wlan0 down
sleep 2
ifconfig wlan0 up
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.11
fi
Though it should be noted that I personally have never set up a static ip on a pi, I use a reverse tunneling service so I never have to worry about port forwarding. My answer references this answer from the raspberrypi stackexchange site.
https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/9678/static-ip-failing-for-wlan0
Let me know if that helps otherwise I can dig deeper into it.
According to feedback from the asker, the /etc/init.d/networking restart was the answer, read comments below.