It wasn't an RF thing really, it was too little memory allocated to the
call for the list of SSIDs after a scan.


Josh Luthman
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On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]>
wrote:

> There may be a lot of SSIDs show up or there may be some hot signals, but
> if they have little traffic, they won't make a large impact. The waterfall
> view is the most important.
>
>
>
> -----
> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> http://www.ics-il.com
>
> ------------------------------
> *From: *"Josh Luthman" <[email protected]>
> *To: *"Ubiquiti Users Group" <[email protected]>
> *Sent: *Monday, November 3, 2014 5:16:22 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [Ubnt_users] PSA: Ubnt XM v5.5.10 major bug -- recommend
> using v5.5.8 -- STA scan-list empty, cannot connect to AP
>
> By my book that's kinda the definition of a bug, but I'm glad you got it
> figured out and all fixed up!
>
>
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Matt Hardy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> To follow up on this thread, we found the issue. This wasn't really a new
>> bug introduced in v5.5.10, but with the additional frequencies the customer
>> was seeing > 100 new APs broadcasting in the UNII-1 band (probably lots of
>> indoor APs). There's a limit of 200 APs the radio can pick up when doing a
>> scan, if the radio is in an area with > 200 broadcasting SSIDs, it causes
>> this issue (on any firmware) and device stops performing as expected.
>>
>> We'll be increasing the limit in v5.6, but in the meantime there are
>> workarounds: scan list, different channel bandwidths, etc.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Phil Curnutt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a Scan List set?  Cut the number of channels it searches down
>>> to a minimum.
>>>
>>> Phil
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Matt Hoppes <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> XW is different.... than XM.
>>>>
>>>> On 10/28/14, 12:35 PM, Josh Reynolds wrote:
>>>> > So they say, yet when XW 5.5.10 was placed on XW Ti hardware, the gear
>>>> > went nuts for a full 24 hours before we tried 5.5.6. When it was just
>>>> as
>>>> > bad, I went to 5.5.10rc3... same issues. 5.5.10rc2? Everything went
>>>> back
>>>> > to normal. It wasn't just one piece of hardware either, the same
>>>> > symptoms were noticed on 4 different APs.
>>>> >
>>>> > They can say nothing changed all they want-- something changed, there
>>>> > were 3rcs, a final, and now tons of bug reports on 5.5.10.
>>>> >
>>>> > Josh Reynolds, Chief Information Officer
>>>> > SPITwSPOTS, www.spitwspots.com <http://www.spitwspots.com>
>>>> >
>>>> > On 10/28/2014 05:05 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
>>>> >> You know there were no changes made to XM v5.5.10 other than adding
>>>> new
>>>> >> frequencies, right?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On 10/27/14, 8:57 PM, Colin Zwiebel wrote:
>>>> >>> We are having serious problems with v5.5.10 with 5GHz XM hardware
>>>> and
>>>> >>> have decided this firmware is not production ready. We using
>>>> *v5.5.10
>>>> >>> only for links that require UNII-1* frequencies and avoiding in all
>>>> >>> other situations. There is some sort of a bug with scanning for
>>>> >>> available networks, so if your area has few networks, you might
>>>> observe
>>>> >>> different behavior.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> http://community.ubnt.com/t5/Installation-Troubleshooting/v5-5-10-major-bug-no-SSIDs-in-scan-print-scanning-info-buffer/m-p/1072997#U1072997
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> *AirOS v5.5.10 is not production ready!*
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Ubiquiti, it appears you have a major bug and need to revoke the
>>>> >>> release, remove from website, until you get this fixed.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> We have now had 3 clients -- 2 Nanobridges and 1 Rocket M5 --
>>>> disconnect
>>>> >>> from their AP with the same behavior: NO SSIDs appear in scan list.
>>>> >>> Downgrade to v5.5.8, no changes to config, radio once against sees
>>>> SSID
>>>> >>> and connects perfectly.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> *Workaround: Frequency Scan List*
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> I cannot fully confirm this, but it appears, v5.5.10 plus frequency
>>>> scan
>>>> >>> list has this problem less. It also might be that this pares down
>>>> the
>>>> >>> amount of data coming from the atheros driver (by not scanning all
>>>> >>> frequencies), and scan list doesn't actually fix the issue, just
>>>> reduces
>>>> >>> the scan data to something that doesn't break the radio.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> *iwlist ath0 scan -- print_scanning_info: buffer too large(65535)
>>>> for
>>>> >>> realocating*
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> In our most recent incident, I was able to SSH into the failed
>>>> v5.5.10 STA
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> XM.v5.5.10# iwlist ath0 scan
>>>> >>> print_scanning_info: buffer too large(65535) for realocating
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> XM.v5.5.10# wlanconfig ath0 list scan
>>>> >>> ioctl[unknown???]: Argument list too long
>>>> >>> wlanconfig: unable to get scan results
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> We are running now with a frequency scan list (cannot downgrade this
>>>> >>> radio) and both iwlist and wlanconfig commands are working properly.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> More details:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> APs: Problem happens with both Nanostation M5 APs and
>>>> PowerBridge-M5 APs
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>   - Seen with AP on v5.5.10
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>   - Seen with AP on v5.5.8
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> STAs: Problem observed with NB-22-M5 and Rocket-M5
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> DFS: Problem observed on both DFS and non-DFS frequencies (5805)
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Most recent incident, Rocket was working fine for a few days,
>>>> suddenly
>>>> >>> died. It rebooted in the process (only 2min uptime when I got to
>>>> >>> it). Let sit 10min, rebooted, made no difference, gave buffer too
>>>> larger
>>>> >>> error no matter how many reboots. Only enabling scan list patched
>>>> it.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Colin
>>>> >>>   netBlazr <http://netblazr.com/> - free your broadband!
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary
>>>> >>> telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York,
>>>> and it
>>>> >>> meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the
>>>> cat.
>>>> >>>
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