[smartBridges] 1.08 Lockups & Powershot question

[Colin Watson]

I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing problems still with AirBridge units locking up? We had a unit (which I informed support@ about) which locked up with 1.08 firmware, and I was wondering if anyone else is using 1.08 firmware and expereinced no problems? We find - if a 1.08 customer locks up you have to 'truck roll' out to them - the ethernet side just won't come up. Secondly, what exactly does the PowerShot POE injector do? Or maybe I should rephrase, does it *only* inject power into the unit? The reason I ask, is that, tonight we had a truck roll to a 1.08 firmware customer. The unit responded perfectly from the wireless side, but not from the ethernet side, a power cycle wouldn't clear it. Went round there, plugged in the trusty Compaq laptop and as soon as simple monitor started - wallah, ethernet statistics started incrementing. Problem was, when I disconnected the laptop, and plugged the cable back into the customers PC - no internet access. So I pulled out the RJ45 plug that connects to the smartbridge (The cable carrying power & data) - thus removing all power to the Smartbridge unit - I left the POE connected tho, and plugged the end POE's black back end into my laptop - worked perfectly (I use a different public IP to test then the one the customer was using). I next changed my IP to that of my customers PC -  and nothing - no traffic. I then unplugged the powershot (powering off all SmartBridge equipment), and replugged it in to My PC - all was perfect. I then plugged it into the customers PC and it was perfect. So my question is, what else is the PowerShot doing? or - if it is a pure injector, any ideas why what happened, happend?   One last thing, please track down whatever it is causing timeouts on certain airbridge units using 1.08 - 1.07 suffers from dissassocation it seems which is bit of a pain. Oh and finally, I took the liberty of screencapturing the statistics of a locked up 1.08 unit (from the wireless side ) - You can find them on www.sigmat.demon.co.uk/smartbridge/. The ethernet counter does not increment, and aged packets seemed to stick at 4?   Regards   Colin.