On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Chris Murphy <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 4:34 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > ... and I bet there's a huge rise in dropped packets before it happens,
> > right?
>
> How can I tell? I tried this but it suggests no dropped packets.
>
> # ip -s -d a
>
>
> 3: wlp2s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state
> UP group default qlen 1000
>     link/ether 34:02:86:cc:d8:69 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff promiscuity 0
>     inet 172.19.11.32/24 brd 172.19.11.255 scope global dynamic wlp2s0
>        valid_lft 15235sec preferred_lft 15235sec
>     inet6 fe80::3602:86ff:fecc:d869/64 scope link
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>     RX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped overrun mcast
>     198972107  245657   0       0       0       0
>     TX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped carrier collsns
>     8006062    90794    0       0       0       0
>
>
>
> >  I'm tellin' ya, it's gotta be the driver/firmware and there's
> > nothing you can do except get a different box or wait until the next
> > revision of the driver/firmware and hope it works.  If you've tweaked the
> > MTU, moved things to avoid interference, changed channels, and hopped
> around
> > between g and n, that's all you can do as a sysadmin/user.
>
> I think it's a local configuration problem. I was in this same
> environment a year ago and this worked with the same hardware (well,
> it was a different building so different physical APs but the people
> managing it are the same).
>
>
A lot can change over a year what with updates to router software and
policy changes.   The sad thing is that the effort needed to sort out
problems
like this is measured in days -- more time than many of us can spare --
and some potentially useful information will be on the routers and is
often inaccessible to the people who could use it.

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