Ethernet Connection not seen in Android ui / Adding static routes, which works well

dunky

Hello,

I would like to configure manually IP settings for my RPI3/Emteria.OS, because i want this Rpi3 to have a specific gateway, different from other machines (a transparent proxy server). currently RPI3 is connected with ethernet/dhcp
I can't see Ethernet interface in Android UI, only Wifi and Bluetooth are present (and VPN, etc in "more"), is it possible t have ethernet options ?

In a different way to reach my proxy, i also tried putting a new static route for this proxy. Route added : OK (seen in route -n) but seems not activated, i mean "ip route get" doesn't give the right specific gateway, only the default.

Where are my mistakes ?

Thanks
Benoit

IKS

Android doesn't provide any settings for static IP by default. You can try setting it up manually (not tested):

ip link set eth0 up

ip addr add 192.168.1.10/24 dev eth0

ip route add default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 table legacy_network

ndc resolver setnetdns eth0 . 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

More information on DNS resolving here: https://github.com/ukanth/afwall/wiki/DNS#android-600_r1

SuperS

Hi there,
i tried the command however the command below did not work
#ip route add default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 table legacy_network

it show the error
#RTNETLINK answers: Network is unreachable

Also is there any way to save the configuration, every time after the Pi reboot, all the configuration for the Eth0 gone

IKS

Today we have started with the implementation of a proper settings UI for this. I hope you don't have to wait too long anymore 😉

SanderK

Is there any news yet regarding this feature?

IKS

Beta support was merged today. It will be in the next release.

RS1962

Could I just ask for confirmation, without this feature, P2P cabled Ethernet is not going work is it?

IKS

@RS1962, not sure about P2P. But you can install v0.6.0 and try it out.

RS1962

@IKS, I've now installed v0.6.0 but found a slight problem with the ethernet config settings. It kept crashing when I tried to switch to static IP. It wasn't cabled when I did this so I tried with ethernet cable plugged in and it worked. Surely it should be able to make these settings regardless of a cable being present during config (obviously I'd need a cable at some point later!)

IKS

@RS1962, thank you very much for reporting. Our current implementation can't work without a cable, since we are using the current (DHCP) configuration for the initial setup of static values. We will come up with a better approach in future, but for now we will probably just limit access to this option to cases when a cable is present.

RS1962

I've also now proceeded to the P2P test and had no issues, all works well. Good work!