E1750 Reloaded - QMI - STATIC - DHCP - IPv4

[Aleksander Morgado]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:27 AM, poma <pomidorabelisima at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> :) No, that won't work. Not every APN gives you access to the
>>>>> Internet, some users may use APNs that give them access to private
>>>>> networks managed by the operators. I've worked with such a case in the
>>>>> past.
>>> Oh yes it does, for the config here.
>>> So you cover that case, but not others? :)
>>>
>>
>> We try to cover every case the best way we can. Pinging google's DNS
>> just to check whether we should fallback to DHCP is just a workaround.
>> As I said, I would very much prefer to just fallback to DHCP by default
>> than adding the ping :) But first I'd rather see whether this issue is
>> Huawei-only or not. Mind you, this is the only issue blocking a new
>> stable release right now; we're working on it.
>
>
> You haven't commented on the latest patch, man.
> Is the test via ping default gateway also a workaround?

Yes... :) As I said, if this issue is something that will happen to
all Huawei QMI devices, we should just reflect that in the code,
instead of trying something and falling back to some other method if
it fails.

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Aleksander
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