John, Don't know if WEP keys are burned also. We don't use WEP. Since we use MAC authentication, we rely on that to keep "strangers" off.
If customer's are expecting their data to be encrypted... poor choice, for once it leaves my AP's its unencrypted on the Internet and a sniffer will find it anyways. So we state to our customers that if you are relying on us to protect you from the Internet and keep your information safe... DON'T! We won't! Tough love is sometimes the best. I know.. someone can sniff and find a MAC and MAC clone... but ya know what.. if my rural area gets people who have that ability.. GREAT! I want them to come work for me anyways and I will give them free access all day long! ;) Scott -----Original Message----- From: "Steve Good" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:01:09 -0700 Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Hosed network > Scott, > Do you burn wep keys and all? If so can you "burn" more then once > so If I ever change wep I can re"burn" them.... Boy the way the last > few days have been I would REALLY LOVE TO BURN BABY BURN ALL OF MINE!! > maybe I can collect all my radios and use them in replace ment for my > newspapers in the fireplace. > > > Thanks, > Steve > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of shoffman > Sent: Tue 11/25/2003 8:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Hosed network > > > > John, > > You are losing association. Thats plane and simple. The ABO's do that > crap if they lose association and can't re-associate quickly (they > change > their ESSID to garbage).. Thats why we started burning in the AP's > name > as the default config.. But as far as I know.. ABO's going like this > do > not affect the AP's (We use Cisco and we didn't see this crap). > > What Pre-amble length are you using. On the Cisco's (per AB's > suggestion) we switched to long and it helped... but the fact that you > WET-11 light is blinking indicates I think you are having signal > issues. > > Scott > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "John K. McReynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:58:57 -0600 > Subject: [smartBridges] Hosed network > > > This will start off-topic, but then get back on topic... > > > > We have an Orinoco AP2000 at a water tower. We have one radio card > in > > this > > unit. We also have a YDI ECII acting as the backhaul. The two units > > are > > connect via eachother's ethernet ports. No switch or router in > > between. This > > has worked great for sometime now...until the last week or so. > > > > About a week ago, we started noticing a massive slow down on our > > network...then > > the AP could not be reached with a ping or any admin tools...i.e., > the > > network > > was down. So, figuring maybe it was equipment failure, I replaced > all > > the AP > > equipment at the tower...different AP2000, different card, different > > coax > > jumper...and bang! It was back to normal. I did change channels > > however. > > > > Now, here we are a week later (today). Same thing is happening. > > > > We have WET11's and ABO's as CPE on our network. I personally have a > > WET11 at > > my home...the WAN light now comes and goes...this morning it is > totally > > off. > > > > We have also noticed that after the first "outage", the ABOs had lost > > association and upon further inspection, the AP that each was > > associated with > > was just a bunch of random garbage...like sHOFW3EHNFSALX, instead of > > the name > > of our AP. We re-associated them and they worked fine. > > > > So, time for my questions: > > 1) Is there some setting that the ABOs need to have to "play nice" > with > > an > > AP2000? > > 2) If an ABO freaks out and loses its association, could it hose the > > AP2000 > > also? > > 3) Should I put a switch or router between the ECII and the AP2000? > > > > I am really in need of assistance here...I am about to my ropes end > > with this > > stuff...any pointers or suggestions will be more than welcomed. > > > > Many thanks in advance, > > > > JOHN > > 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 > > 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 > > > 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
