RPI3 as Access point

1st Official Post

    I posted about this and some other stuff a while ago but didn't really get an answer so here it is again.

    I used my RPI3 as an AP when I was using OpenElec because of the shitty wifi reception I have in my room upstairs.
    The same option is in LibreELEC but I can't get it to work properly. It starts an AP but without internet access.
    Did I forget something from when I set it up on OE or has something changed?

    • Official Post

    Seems connman sets up a separate subnet that isolates it from the rest of the lan. I'll look into it as this isn't the first report.

    In the mean time you can always set a gateway using

    Code
    route add default gw 192.168.0.1 eth0

    or whatever the ip of your gateway is.

    Quote from lrusak


    Seems connman sets up a separate subnet that isolates it from the rest of the lan. I'll look into it as this isn't the first report.

    In the mean time you can always set a gateway using

    Code
    route add default gw 192.168.0.1 eth0


    or whatever the ip of your gateway is.

    I got an error trying that:

    Code
    route: ioctl 0x890b failed: Network is unreachable

    I've looked at ifconfig and while in the GUI everything is set correctly, ifconfig gives me a gateway of *.*.*.255 instead of *.*.*.254.

    Is there a file where I can change these settings?

    Also, the tether has a totally different IP range (standard 192.168.etc) but I think that's normal, I think it was that way too when it was working on OE.

    I am exactly in the same situation. With Openelec the tethering worked fine and now I can conncet to the HotSpot provided by my Raspberry Pi2, but I have not internet access in the connected device.
    I posted this before LibreELEC but I have not had any useful answer.
    Any help?
    Thanks

    Quote from librejose32


    I am exactly in the same situation. With Openelec the tethering worked fine and now I can conncet to the HotSpot provided by my Raspberry Pi2, but I have not internet access in the connected device.
    I posted this before thread-2556.html?highlight=tethering but I have not had any useful answer.
    Any help?
    Thanks

    Any news here?

    With Krypton on an Pi3 I cannot access the internet over the wifi hotspot. On LibreELEC 7 this worked without any problems.

    I registered to this forum today to ask this question but seems I've solved it meanwhile :)

    SSH in as root, execute this:

    Code
    echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

    and it started working just fine for me - give it a try!

    Quote from kjozsa


    I registered to this forum today to ask this question but seems I've solved it meanwhile :)

    SSH in as root, execute this:

    Code
    echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

    and it started working just fine for me - give it a try!

    Perfect! That helps a lot.

    Is there any solution to activate this at startup, or when the network starts?

    Quote from carnivoire


    Is there any solution to activate this at startup, or when the network starts?

    Try:

    Code
    echo "net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1" >/storage/.config/sysctl.d/ip_forward.conf


    and reboot.

    Confirm it is enabled with:

    Code
    sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward


    and you should see:

    Code
    net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

    Needs a better solution though, as this is only a band aid.