Wireless Software Access Point (WiFi Router)

[mabalenk]

I'm on a mission to setup a wireless software access point (WiFi Router) on a basis of Raspberry Pi, Model B, Arch Linux and RLT8188CUS USB WiFi dongle. I have followed the steps described in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Software_access_point. I have tried both the bridge and the NAT approach for the network configuration. I can see the WLAN created on the basis of RPi. Unfortunately, I can not obtain an IP address from RPi on my Nexus smartphone. I believe something is wrong with my DHCP settings.

Contents of my configuration files are the following:

/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
ssid=WiFi
wpa_passphrase=passwd
interface=wlan0
bridge=br0
auth_algs=3
channel=7
driver=rlt871xdrv
hw_mode=g
logger_stdout=-1
logger_stdout_level=2
max_num_sta=5
rsn_pairwise=CCMP
wpa=2
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=TKIP CCMP
')

/etc/netctl/bridge

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
Description="RPi bridge connection"
Interface=br0
Connection=bridge
BindsToInterfaces=(eth0)
IP=dhcp
')

Static IPv4 address for wlan0 is assigned as

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
ip link set up dev wlan0
ip addr add 192.168.0.1/24 dev wlan0
')

/etc/sysctl.d/30-ipforward.conf

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
net.ipv6.conf.default.forwarding=1
net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1
')

NAT is enabled with iptables as

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
iptables -A FORWARD -i wlan0 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -m conntrack --ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
')

/etc/dhcpd.conf

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
option domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option routers 139.96.30.100;
subnet 139.96.30.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 139.96.30.150 139.96.30.250;
}
')

I also notice there is an error in DHCP configuration:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
dhcpd4.service - IPv4 DHCP server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpd4.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 1970-01-01 23:10:47 CET; 44 years 2 months ago
Process: 2625 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dhcpd -4 -q -pf /run/dhcpd4.pid (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 2628 (dhcpd)
CGroup: /system.slice/dhcpd4.service
`-2628 /usr/sbin/dhcpd -4 -q -pf /run/dhcpd4.pid

Jan 01 23:10:47 rpi dhcpd[2625]: Wrote 0 leases to leases file.
Jan 01 23:10:47 rpi dhcpd[2625]:
Jan 01 23:10:47 rpi dhcpd[2625]: No subnet declaration for eth0 (10.29.231.68).
Jan 01 23:10:47 rpi dhcpd[2625]: ** Ignoring requests on eth0. If this is not what
Jan 01 23:10:47 rpi dhcpd[2625]: you want, please write a subnet declaration
Jan 01 23:10:47 rpi dhcpd[2628]: Server starting service.
Jan 01 23:10:47 rpi systemd[1]: Started IPv4 DHCP server.
')

Any troubleshooting guidance would be most welcome. Thank you.

[pepedog]

With bridge the rpi doesn't give out IP addresses. First two files look ok from what it see.
After that stop configuring, next step is
netctl enable bridge
systemctl enable hostapd
That's it