On Fri, 06 Nov 2020 20:39:24 +0000, alister wrote:

> Having a strange problem on my Pi400
>
> after it sucsesfully authenticates on the Wifi it almost always fails to
> get a valid IP address & adopts a 169.254.x.x address.
> I am not using my routers DHCP server but have dnsmasq on another server
> because I hve equipment that needs additional options.
> The problem is considerable less if i use the guest network (which does
> get dhcp from the router) but even that fails to renew correctly &
> reverts to a 169.254.x.x address. it also fails to reconnect correctly
> after a reboot needit a number of disconnects
>
> The same SD card works without issue in a Pi4B
>
> I do suspect the Virmin Media stupid humb 3 may be playing some part as
> connecting to my mobile phane as a hot spot has sofar failed to exhibit
> these issues.
>
> This may be the final excuse i need to ditch VM wifi but would like to
> know that what ever i buy will not have the same problem

After posting on the raspberrypi.org forum it seems I am not the only one
with this problem when using a Virgin Media Superhub 3

It is being investigated by the RPF



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faster than light, or a floating-point boolean value?
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