Quite simple. I control my STB also with my home automation (not HA) and my remotes (Unfolded Circle R2/R3) and therefore I need a fixed IP independant of the used network. I just started an USB flash so that I really have a clean setup.
Do you mean that you occasionally want to use ethernet and sometimes use wifi? I don't know whether enigma will actually enable both interfaces simultaneously properly. In any case, apart from the enigma inner workings, your network router would not be able to route to two different mac addresses with the same IP address. Unless you mean that you are using some "wake on lan" technique to activate the receiver from deep standby with the wifi disabled? I have never tested having both interfaces working although enigma will certainly enable both (with a green tick mark in the gui) but then will ask you to choose one as preferred so it can change the order of the interfaces file. In any case you couldn't/shouldn't use the same IP address on two interfaces.
Linux will happily let you put the same address onto two different interfaces.
Not convinced that makes any difference. The Linux network code will be looking at the Metric value of the routing tables, and I don't see them being affected.
I've taken this to be an either/or setup.
No. My config started a decade or so ago and the device was sometimes on cable and sometimes on WiFi. As I already did a factory reset and used the occasion to create a new master-config for me I can change the ethernet part for a test and set it to DHCP.
The network setup in enigma will place an "auto" before an interface description (iface) with a tick mark. When you choose to disable one it will remove the "auto" in the /etc/network/interfaces file.
# automatically generated by enigma2
# do NOT change manually!
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
udhcpc_opts -T1 -t9
hostname $(hostname)# automatically generated by enigma2
# do NOT change manually!
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp
udhcpc_opts -T1 -t9
hostname $(hostname)
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
hostname $(hostname)
address 192.168.0.127
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.0.1
pre-up wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.wlan0.conf -B -dd -Dnl80211 || true
pre-down wpa_cli -iwlan0 terminate || trueHmmm....bit of a cock-up on my part.
Ok - that's odd. Your interfaces files looks almost the same as mine (on my wifi box), except that wifi is not starting on your box, but works every time on mine!
Really? My wifi dongles all get the same MAC address (the one printed on the dongle itself) each time I insert them on a Linux system.
Yep - the first three pairs are the same each time, but the last three pairs are random. I don't see a way to change this behaviour in the driver. My phone generates completely random MAC addresses (a pseudo security measure) but there is a setting where I can turn this feature off.
I saw this but I have no idea why the config is this way as it is automatically generated .
i assume those files do exist in /etc ???? .... wl-config.sh & wl-down.sh
What driver(s) produces the random ones?
Yes, but here you can turn it off "by network".
I assume a driver was installed for your wifi ( is that an external usb wifi device?), so check that those drivers are still being installed - otherwise they are not typical scripts for internal wifi that I have seen
