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  1. In other exciting home sysadmin news, I have a problem in the #RPi4 box I use as the router for the local WiFi network: periodically, some clients disassociate, and then can't reconnect. (I don't really know why.) The general solution is to restart #hostapd. But I don't want to do that manually all the time.

    I have now set up a service to restart hostapd automatically if it cannot successfully ping one of the other boxes. It runs with a systemd timer. Things seem better now.

  2. @falk_ @Ann_Effes Wenn Du Hardcore magst: auf einem (alten) Laptop Linux mit #hostapd aufsetzen - und dann lassen sich mit #iptables schlimme Dinge (u.a. #NAT, #PortForwarding) tun 😏

  3. For those struggling to setup a #wireless #AP on #Linux using #wpa_supplicant/#NetworkManager, wpa_supplicant 2.10+ apparently has a bug making such networks invisible when configured with #WPA2. #hostapd still works, but so does switching to #WPA3:

    askubuntu.com/a/1444282/265381