comments inline.... > Howdy - > > So if I deploy smartbridges in my network and then someday I have > to replace an access point, as far as I can see, _all_ smartbridge > customers are going to go down and stay down until we can come and > reconfigure their smartbridge. This is due to it's reliance on the bssid > of the access point, which I don't directly have control over as it's > based on that AP's mac address. So an AP failure is no longer a 1 or 2 > hour outage proposal, now it's a 3 or 4 day long ordeal as we work > overtime running all over hells creations reconfiguring end stations. Is > there any way to fix the AirBridge so this horror story never has to > happen? >
Check the little box marked 'roaming' on the Site Survey tab and it will associate with any AP with the correct SSID. > ` Secondly, I've discovered an interesting bug. Using a cisco 350 > access point, if I have an airbridge and a wet11 associated, if I enable > rts/cts, the AirBridge malfunctions and begins dropping frames while the > wet11 just keeps chunking along as if nothing happened. Why is this? > > Thirdly, I hate it's stupid IP stack. It can't use it's default > gateway, which means that if you talk to the device, you have to have an > ip address in the same range as the device, which in my network is almost > impossible to do (clients are on public nets and radios/infrasturcture > equipment is on private ip's). Is this problem scheduled for a fix anytime > soon? I would love to begin polling these devices via snmp and charting > their stats. > Check 'Wireless' as the Primary Port on the Advanced tab and set the gateway correctly and you can manage them from anywhere. > > Thanks. > Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635 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://archives.part-15.org
