I have seen exactly this in 2 'June' units. However, such a unit can be
browsed and ping'd from the wireless side. And as Derek Breiland has
said, the problem seems to be confined to the 'June' radios.

Since a power-cycle does not (always?) correct the aB's inability to
communicate from other than the wireless side, the aB must be saving IP
and MAC-related state in its flash (or other NV device). So, the
question: what is it saving that prevents communication, and is that
data correctly stored and retrieved (referring specifically to flash
erase/write/read timing)?

Bill


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, 20 October, 2003 15:16
Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Beta 1.0.08 locking up Ethernet anyone
else??


The strange thing is the way that a power cycle (for me at least) did
not
appear to correct the issue (when I arrived at the premesis the unit was
power cycled twice). Now, I'm aware of the ARP table issue, I have
noticed
that before (same IP / different MAC causes the AB occasionally to go
nuts)
so as a precaution I always power cycle before leaving the unit, and use
a
different reserved administrative IP to check connections. As I say,
prior
to actually logging into the unit with simplemonitor nothing was
happening,
as soon as I did a search in simple monitor, logged in, check the link
state, logged out - changed IP to a public routable one all was well -
worked flawlessly. Now, these are almost exactly the same circumstances
under which the other unit failed. We use an ABO connected to another
vendors 'bridge' as a cheap backhaul solution for a small number of
customers. Now, I was going to replace the existing setup with 2 APO's
(with
1.4.9? firmware) because of throughput issue (we currently get about
200Kilobytes/second - but the APO's have shown 550-600Kbyte/s throughput
(~5Mbit). Anyway, when we did this we failed (long story - not
relevant),
but upon fixing back up our existing link - the ABO just would not come
up.
You could see it from the wireless side, the other vendors equipment
reported a perfect association, but no traffic passed. A power cycle
failed.
Unit comes up - but nothing. Connected the laptop in, booted
simplemonitor -
logged into the AP, all perfect. Backlinks working again now (touch
wood)
under old setup. Anyway I hope the last few problems are soon resolved.

Colin.



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