Maybe others have the power to keep this in mind but a network diagram would certainly help.
>From what I'm gathering the issue isn't a MT backhaul but rather things at a site going up/down in weird patterns. My first guess would be bad switch. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” --- Winston Churchill On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Forbes Mercy <[email protected]> wrote: > We have been plagued with an ongoing issue in our Mikrotik backhauls. > It happens about once a month and only on three radios that feed each > other, all other sites work fine. Site A is my head end, it is a > Mikrotik 433 with an XR5 chip that feeds about five miles to another > site to Site B. Site B has the same equipment that goes through a > managed switch then passes on to Site C about 7 miles further. > > What happens is we are suddenly paged that all three are down. > Sometimes Site A stays up, most times not, we can get into Site A since > it's the head end and we reboot it, it comes right back up. Site B and > C stay down, we have to drive to Site B and reboot it, it comes back up > but Site C stays down. We have a remote reboot for it from a redundant > feed so after rebooting it C reconnects to B and they are all up. This > will happen three or four more times in a single day or not at all again > for a month, it's totally unpredictable. The boards are up but not > communicating, it also takes down the other 2.4 Mikortik AP's at Site B > and that has to be rebooted. We normally run arp -d to clear up any > residual, it sure appears to be traffic related and we are on a bridged > not routed network. > > The only similarities is it's only this feed, it usually happens in > spurts of a day or two then stops for a long time, it always happens > during the working day leading me to believe it's coming from a day > user. We run Wireshark but see nothing, we torch the towers and they > don't show much unusual. We're thinking it might be a deluge of traffic > between Site B and C and are thinking of putting a PC at the C tower to > run diagnostics there. This is very manpower heavy as we have to send > people two places and average down time is one hour to do this. We are > going to turn our network into a routed network this Summer but that > doesn't help now. Any ideas would be appreciated. > > Forbes > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
