It may be the CPE isn't "falling asleep" or dropping association. The problem could be in the AP MAC table.
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:35:30 -0600, "David Blood" wrote: Your right pinging it could not possibly bring it back. There have been some problems reported of units losing association when there is no activity.� Running a continues ping solves that problem so the cpe would never go to sleep. � Kind Regards,David -----Original Message-----From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Blazen WirelessSent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 12:29 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [smartBridges] [good and bad] New aPPo from Singapore I don't understand how pinging a client radio that is not associated to the AP is going to bring it back to life and re-associate? Maybe I am missing something here or is this just a fix for the APPO if you can get to it from the LAN side?? � � ----- Original Message ----- From: Gloria Vester To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [smartBridges] [good and bad] New aPPo from Singapore Yes, they are running very well.� I did have one lock up once, night before last, but I pinged and it came back and has been up ever since.� It was while I was trying to associate a new customer and was getting interference from a new competitor. � Thank you, Gloria ----- Original Message ----- From: sB Tech Support To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 11:57 AM Subject: RE: [smartBridges] [good and bad] New aPPo from Singapore Hi Gloria,� � Appreciate you could update the status of the 4 aPPO (Post-June) units from Singapore, have they been running well so far? � Alex sB Tech Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] � -----Original Message-----From: Gloria Vester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 8:42 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [smartBridges] [good and bad] New aPPo from Singapore � I would love to do that - you guys have been so great and supportive, but I would be afraid they are lurking on this list and see it and I don't want to risk giving them any reasons to come after me anymore than they already are.� Last night the customer that was seeing their ap was not able to get online.� I was on the phone with him until almost midnight trying to get him back up, to no avail.� I could see his airBridge for a while, even logged into it from this end.� When I did, I saw two of my aps and one of the other guy's.� All three of them had less than 25% signal strength, so was unable to get the customer�back up.� We are going out there tonight when he gets home from work and changing out his antenna with one that has a tighter beam width.� He was working fine the night before, 100% RSSI on one of our AP's, then when he got home from work last night and tried to get online, no go.� I hope to get time today to go do some war driving and see if I can find his ap's. � Thanks guys - I appreciate all the advice and support, Gloria � ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Haynes To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 2:05 AM Subject: RE: [smartBridges] [good and bad] New aPPo from Singapore � I hate to say play dirty but they really suck. You might accidently post their IP range and MAC addresses on here :-) � -----Original Message-----From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gloria VesterSent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:32 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [smartBridges] [good and bad] New aPPo from Singapore I don't really know for sure what they are using, simpleMonitor showed me the MAC address of their ap and I looked it up and found out it is an Aironet MAC address.� When we called them over a month ago to try and cooperate with them, they told us they were going to be running�on channels 1, 6, & 11.� We told them that we were running on channels 1, 4, 8, & 11 and asked them if they could change their channels, they basically said they would do what they want, wherever they want, and it is our problem, not theirs.� Even when we told them, nicely, that we were here first, we already had customers online on those channels, they didn't give a s**t.� I may be over reacting too soon, but I am going by the attitude they gave us when we talked to them.� There seemed to be absolutely no interest on their part to get along or cooperate or share the spectrum. � Gloria � ----- Original Message ----- From: Pascal Losier To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:09 AM Subject: RE: [smartBridges] [good and bad] New aPPo from Singapore � Is the aironet of your competitor FHSS or DSSS ??? � � � � ----------ANNOUNCEMENT---------- Don't forget to register for WISPCON IV http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm 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
