Hi Scott I'm glad I'm not the only one with this problem.
I will take your suggestion and run continual pings to each of these three clients for a month or so and see if they stay on. If so, then I'll stop and see if they fall off again. I agree this is a major kludge, but given the number of issues I've had recently I want to do whatever I can tp provide stability. Thanks Scott Sam On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, shoffman wrote: > Sam, > > We have had this with two particular customer's. It has occurred when > the AB(Totals in our case) dis-associates due to inactivity. (If y'all > didn't know, this will happen after 5 minutes (I think) of inactivity on > the Bridge. When the AB comes back up, it sometimes does not re- > associate. We have not witnessed it, but some rumors have it is that if > it fails the first time and you have roaming on, the unit will look for > anything to associate with. My assumption is that since there is NOTHING > near my clients (literally) it grabs nothing and places garbage here > (either that or it sees a 2.4 wireless phone). In any event, there was > no way of us repeating this behavior (we tried several times) without us > actually moving in with the client, so we fixed this by setting up very > small packet pings to those "strange behavior" ABTotals that keep them > alive (i.e., we are never allowing them to disassociate. > > AB told us to hard code in the AP, which we did, but it didn't work. > Still same problem. They didn't seem to believe us, but oh well, we > solved it (in an ugly fashion I do admit, but had bigger fish to fry). > > Would love it if SB would look at it. (PS Logging doesn't work unless > we use client machine due to the fact that it "disassociates" so central > system will loose touch. > > > Scott > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 23:28:26 -0500 (CDT) > Subject: [smartBridges] Weird Characters in ESSID and Loss of association > > > Tonight I went to two of my customer's homes to re-associate their > > airbridges. When I got there the ESSID had changed from logan-wt to > > something like ZUCimkXZ and the BSSID was all zeros. Earlier this > > weekend > > another customer with an airbridge outdoor had the same thing happen. > > His > > ESSID changed from logan-wt to some jumble of letters. > > > > Got any idea what is causing this to happen? There are about 30 people > > on > > that AP (logan-wt). All three of these people are on the logan-wt AP. > > As > > far as I know they are the only three that lost association, but this > > is > > the third time in a month or so that it's happened. Are these defective > > Airbridges? Their RSSI is > 50% and the Link quality is close to 80%. > > They > > are at most six miles from the AP, and one of them is only a couple of > > miles away from the AP. > > > > Should I get an rma for these or do you think there is something else > > causing this? They are all using 1.50 of the firmware, though I did > > have > > the man with the outdoor airbridge backrev to 1.43 to see if that will > > help. > > > > Thanks > > Sam Morris, Owner > > Loganet Internet Service > > Logan IA > > > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe > > smartBridges <yournickname> > > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe > > smartBridges) > > Archives: http://198.63.203.6 > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges > <yournickname> > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) > Archives: http://198.63.203.6 > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://198.63.203.6
