I'm providing wireless internet access for a small building with
OpenBSD 4.3 (some snapshot) as access point. I'm using the ral
driver. I regularly need to bring down and then back up the interface
with ifconfig. Is this normal? Is there anything I can do short of
replacing the card? As an aside, I'm pondering going wired but
plugging into a wireless bridge. Any recommendations on models?
ral0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:18:f8:28:b9:f4
groups: wlan
media: IEEE802.11 DS11 mode 11b hostap (autoselect mode 11b hostap)
status: active
ieee80211: nwid MYNETWORK chan 11 bssid 00:18:f8:28:b9:f4 100dBm
inet6 fe80::218:f8ff:fe28:b9f4%ral0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
Thanks for listening,
/juan
