9 months ago we discussed the troublesome nature of certain Cisco/Linksys devices.
I decided to do a little follow-up work today and discovered that they have a new hardware revision that uses an external clock crystal on the PHY interface. As it turns out there was sufficient clock drift on the Ethernet port, that at gigabit speeds it would eventually fail requiring a reset. The good news is that Cisco is graciously providing advanced replacement of my access points and waiving the associated fees. Let's hope this is the end of the issue. Jake Mohnkern Cambridge Computer Services -----SNIP----- >Anyone have a shell reference to Linksys WAPs? I have some >temperamental 4410Ns that like to lose connectivity to the LAN. The >switch indicates that that port is down. Unplugging the ethernet cord >and plugging it back immediately fixes this problem (no need to power >cycle!), but it's REALLLLLY inconvenient. I set the network switches >to 10GF instead of auto-negotiate, but I'd like to change that setting >on the Linksys side, too. You can't do this from the GUI. Ethtool is >missing from busybox on the Linksys, but maybe they have another tool >that will let me do this? >Any other ideas? >Mucho Gracious. >Gil -----SNIP----- I have the exact same devices and had the exact same problem. I scripted PuTTY/plink to reboot them every night as a stopgap before they choked on their own and needed to be manually reset. plink -batch -v -ssh -pw PutPasswordHere ad...@putipaddresshere reboot However, since upgrading to the newly released 2.0.0.5 firmware I have not needed to reboot once. If they are stable for another year I will re-categorize them in my mind as "not garbage" but for now I would not recommend these devices. Let me also point out that Cisco "small business" support was completely unable to help. I basically had to implement a hack, and wait 6 months for a firmware update. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
