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The Roam box in the new GUI of simpleMonitor is
just a quick way to put in the all 00000000's for the BSSID. This is about the
same as the ANY we have all used in the ESSID, but with the all 000000's it will
only look for the ESSID in the box. I set up a ABO with an ESSID with "DNS
AP" and then click on the roam box giving me the BSSID of all 0's. This works
very well when I want to jump in the truck in the middle of the night and go
house shopping. My realtor about died when I pulled up in front of a home I
wanted to check out with her and I pulled up the listing on realtor.com.
Having all 3 of my current AP's set with the same ESSID I can get coverage in so
many places and don't have to mess with my ABO settings.
Hope this helps,
Tom
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 00:04
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Clients don't
auto re-associate after replacing AP
Tom, If you select roaming then I am assumming
you can leave whatever BSSID is set at. Now, Does the APPO have to have all
0's for the BSSID? Joe
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 11:18
PM
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Clients
don't auto re-associate after replacing AP
On the ABO set the BSSID to all 00000000 or if
you have the latest simple monitor you can click on the box for roaming on
the Site Survey tab. I have forgotten to do that to a couple of installs and
have logged back in with Simple Monitor and made the change so I did not
have to back out to the customers site.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003
22:49
Subject: [smartBridges] Clients don't
auto re-associate after replacing AP
Today another APP failed on us
(#7 in last three weeks). This one was an APP Indoor (two weeks old).
We�re totally out of spares by now so I robbed an APPO from a less used
site and configured it exactly like the unit that failed, same channel,
same name, same ESSID, etc. We called our customers and had them cycle
power on their ABO�s but they did not auto re-associate. So, three truck
rolls and three hours later we got them going again.
At the customer site, they
each have routers, so they cannot easily log in to the SB client and
re-associate themselves. So, we show up w/our laptops and do it for them.
My question is, is there any way to get ABO�s to auto re-associate w/a new
A/P (only thing different is the MAC address, right?). Can you imagine the
grief if you had, say 50 clients on an A/P and it fails, then you replace
the A/P and have to roll-out to 50 customers just to get everyone
going?
What am I missing
here?
TIA
Bobby Bounds
Airwave Internet,
LLC
Albuquerque,
NM
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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