It's good to hear that your aB are reliably connecting with AP1000s. We have a couple dozen, all-'June' 0.01.01 aBs on 7 AP1000s, most of which are not doing well. Symptoms vary widely with aB and time. (Our network is a free-for-all pastiche of whatever gateways and radios, so extreme wierdness is expected.) Some aBs (subs) infrequently suffer packet loss, some refuse to reassoc for long intervals (not corrected by power cycling), some return echos from the network side but not from the client side. I have seen all symptoms from a single aB over time.
I've looked for bad netmasks, autonegotiation failures, RF issues, cabling issues, power noise, IP conflicts, interference, AP bridge-table corruption, and misc client issues. Nothing found (almost), this with concurrent radio and Eth snooping, and on both sides of a switchhub. The problem seems to lie with the AP; but A few aBs are fine. Two which were not happy were experimentally made well by reflashing them 4x at 10*C. Altho this proved not to be a panacea, it does show that something is related to the aBs. Still looking... Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Kerns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, 27 September, 2003 15:59 Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Orinoco AP success Bill, I have 19 AB's connected to AP-1000 and AP-2000. I hate the fact that I can't see them from the AP side and have no idea how the signal is being received, but they are working well. I do have one that every time I cycle the AP, it has to be power cycled to re-associate. The Orinoco AP's run days with no problems. Most times that I do reset them it is to trouble shoot a problem I'm having else where and the AP is never the problem. I don't have any APPO's in my network and don't plan on adding any. I also haven't purchased any AB's since the last 5 had the heat problem in which 4 out of 5 were fixed and the 5th lost Ethernet. My customers and my reputation are too important for me to install a product that may fail as these have done. I've gone back to using Orinoco Ethernet converters on the client side, and I can see them and manage them from the wireless side. What are the symptoms you are seeing at the AP? Also my backhaul is using Orinoco COR and OR-500's. Solid! Tim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Clark Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [smartBridges] Orinoco AP success Is anyone out there successfully using an Orinoco AP (eg AP1000) with a set of aBs? We are seeing symptoms of bridge-table corruption at the AP awa other strange problems with a dozen aBs (in addition to the well known inability of the AP to report aB associations). I'm thinking this can't be made to work. Bill Clark ----------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 ----------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 ----------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
