Sounds like you need some filtering bridges to help you in the
meantime.  Drop some in the network and add some rules for DHCP and such.
You don¹t have to re-address.
-- 
Justin Wilson <[email protected]>
http://www.mtin.net/blog
Wisp Consulting ­ Tower Climbing ­ Network Support



From: Forbes Mercy <[email protected]>
Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:31:40 -0700
To: WISPA General List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [WISPA] I NEED HELP

Wow very interesting hypothesis since it happened right after a
lightning storm with heavy rain.  Trouble is I shut off all six
backhauls and started turning them on one by one until I had a "IP
conflict" warning then turned that one off, the IP conflict happened
again, yes I did arp -d to clear the bouncing out of it but then it
happened on a different tower, I just can't seem to find it and yes
we're way too large to be bridged, that was our summer project to become
routed but that doesn't help today.  It's a great idea but I have 54
AP's so I don't know where to start.

Forbes

On 8/1/2010 11:09 AM, Kurt Fankhauser wrote:
> Forbes,
>
> I remember seeing something similar to this on the list a few months back.
> Turned out he guy was running a bridged network and water got into the
> Ethernet connector on a Bullet and was causing Layer2 broadcast storms on
> the network. Very similar results to what you are reporting.
>
> Kurt Fankhauser
> WAVELINC
> P.O. Box 126
> Bucyrus, OH 44820
> 419-562-6405
> www.wavelinc.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Forbes Mercy
> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 2:45 AM
> To: WISPA General List
> Subject: [WISPA] I NEED HELP
>
> This has been a very long day, after a lightning storm we started to
> have towers randomly drop for 2-10 minutes with no consistency as to
> where, how how long.  The tower that was affected by last nights
> lightning restarted (locally) so that wasn't it.  The outages were so
> extensive that at one time we had 17 devices down and five minutes later
> 65 devices down, 10 minutes later 33, so you see where this is coming
> from.  I went to the head end and rebooted everything from the core
> router on out., changed passwords on the core in case it had been
> compromised but show run didn't reveal anything.  Oh the other thing,
> every computer we have started to say IP address is in use on the
> network, no matter what we changed it to, even a subnet we don't yet use
> it said it was in use.  I had to repair my connection often just to do
> work on the network and it would work for a while then again say
> duplicate IP.  That's why I'm convinced it's traffic.
>
> I started turning Towers back on one at a time and for about 6 towers
> there were no drops, I drove to the next junction site to turn more on
> but by then the original 6 were dropping, I turned the rest of them on
> but by now it's 11PM so traffic was probably lower as it's Sat. Night.
> Honestly I don't know what to do, Our Backhauls are all Mikrotik to our
> 12 towers, WireShark isn't seeing anything unusual, I have icmp packet
> drop in the filters.  My weekend is basically ruined, what's new in this
> business, but if anyone has ideas I've talked to two networking gurus in
> town and they both said "geez I don't know you wireless guys have way
> bigger networks than we do".  sigh.
>
> Thanks,
> Forbes
>
>
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