I’m running OpenBSD on a computer which is connected via wireless to the network. It is a well supported NIC and I’ve had no problems with it from a hardware perspective.

Unfortunately my wireless access point occasionally loves to forget it’s settings. I then have to help it remember. However, in this intervening time my OpenBSD box drops the connection and then does not automatically reconnect. I have alleviated my problems by running this simple script in the background:

#!/bin/sh
while [ 1 ]
do
    ping -c1 192.168.1.254 > /dev/null
    if [ $? = 1 ]
    then
        sh /etc/netstart ral0 > /dev/null
    fi
    sleep 30
done

[Ping the access point. If there is no response attempt to reconnect.]

It seems to me to be a very suboptimal solution. Has anyone else come across a better way?