IPFire disconnects from wifi

Networking
#1

Hi, I have an HP desktop with IPFire.

I have the red zone setup to use wifi and I use a TP-Link TL-WN881ND Wireless N300 PCI Express Adapter.

I connect to a wifi router in a home.

This has been working great for months. I am really happy with connection speed, and the system has been very stable.

But I moved recently, and I am now connecting to a different wifi router.

Initially IPFire connects well to this router, but after some time (it varies, but typically a few hours) I lose my connection.

When I log into IPFIre it says Connecting…

I have tried to go thru the settings and I dont know if there is anything I shoud change in settings.

I have searched for solutions but haven’t found anything.

Any help to try and prevent these disconnections would be much appreciated.

Thanks ahead of time.

#2

Are the connection losses initiated by IPFire network management functions or by the wireless network?
Wireless is more complex than a solid wired connection ( physical connection depends on wire and connectors only ).

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#3

Hi Bernhard,
Thanks for your response.
To be honest I don’t know how to tell if the connection loss was initiated by IFFire or the wireless network.
I looked thru the menus in IPFire and found the logs but I dont know enough to be able to interpret the logs.
Any further help is much appreciated.

#4

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone may have any suggestions for me to resolve my issue as per my original post above?
Thanks ahead of time…

I did setup IPFire to do a reconnect every 6 hours but that does not seem to help…

#5

This may help others answer your questions… Are you setup like this?

wireless_client_diag_v5a copy
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#6

So what usually would be called BLUE became RED and IPFire is a sort of Wireless Bridge?

Joe,
You could just copy and paste the logs in your post, I think useful one are Logs-System Logs-IPFire

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#7

Hi Jon, thanks for providing that image - that IS exactly my configuration :slight_smile:

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#8

Hi trish,

I dont think it is a unusual reconfiguration of a BLUE to RED or anything like that :slight_smile:

This configuration is documented at Scenario 1 - Wi-Fi (red) and Ethernet (green) - wiki.ipfire.org - # Scenario 1 - Wi-Fi (red) and Ethernet (green) if you want further info on it…

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#9

My log at Logs-System Logs-IPFire for today is shown below.

The ConnSched connect events are expected - I have setup Reconnects every 6 hours to try and resolve this issue. (Didnt help).

IPFire was disconnected from the wifi router this morning and so:
07:40:33 ipfire: NTP synchronisation event
May be related.

Any further help is dearly appreciated. Thanks.

Total hits for log section ipfire December 28, 2020: 3
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Time Section
00:00:02 ipfire: ConnSched connect
07:40:33 ipfire: NTP synchronisation event
12:00:02 ipfire: ConnSched connect

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