so i went a bit crazy and fished out 2 more home routers, one more usb dongle (only supported on linux) and a windows machine. quite a lan party i am having.
using the 4 routers helped me rule out the router. and using another usb dongle on linux helped me confirm it is definitely not an openbsd issue. the crucial clue for me was trying: openbsd wifi -> router -> ethernet linux where suddenly everything was ok. that ruled out openbsd wifi issues (on run(4); ath(4) kind of works, but being internal it is not nice that it has 1/3 of the usb dongle's througput) and finally pinging linux from windows showed exactly the same kind of erratic behaviour i was seeing from openbsd. sorry for the monologue, but writing my research to the mailing list really makes me concentrate and as a bonus maybe someone can chime in and/or learn something from it. today's moral lesson: write at least 3 mails to misc@ before starting pointing fingers. and that linux is a good talker but bad listener. hehe. have a nice weekend. i am glad i did not waste mine on this. -f -- it takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow.
