Sam, We have had this with two particular customer's. It has occurred when the AB(Totals in our case) dis-associates due to inactivity. (If y'all didn't know, this will happen after 5 minutes (I think) of inactivity on the Bridge. When the AB comes back up, it sometimes does not re- associate. We have not witnessed it, but some rumors have it is that if it fails the first time and you have roaming on, the unit will look for anything to associate with. My assumption is that since there is NOTHING near my clients (literally) it grabs nothing and places garbage here (either that or it sees a 2.4 wireless phone). In any event, there was no way of us repeating this behavior (we tried several times) without us actually moving in with the client, so we fixed this by setting up very small packet pings to those "strange behavior" ABTotals that keep them alive (i.e., we are never allowing them to disassociate.
AB told us to hard code in the AP, which we did, but it didn't work. Still same problem. They didn't seem to believe us, but oh well, we solved it (in an ugly fashion I do admit, but had bigger fish to fry). Would love it if SB would look at it. (PS Logging doesn't work unless we use client machine due to the fact that it "disassociates" so central system will loose touch. Scott -----Original Message----- From: Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 23:28:26 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [smartBridges] Weird Characters in ESSID and Loss of association > Tonight I went to two of my customer's homes to re-associate their > airbridges. When I got there the ESSID had changed from logan-wt to > something like ZUCimkXZ and the BSSID was all zeros. Earlier this > weekend > another customer with an airbridge outdoor had the same thing happen. > His > ESSID changed from logan-wt to some jumble of letters. > > Got any idea what is causing this to happen? There are about 30 people > on > that AP (logan-wt). All three of these people are on the logan-wt AP. > As > far as I know they are the only three that lost association, but this > is > the third time in a month or so that it's happened. Are these defective > Airbridges? Their RSSI is > 50% and the Link quality is close to 80%. > They > are at most six miles from the AP, and one of them is only a couple of > miles away from the AP. > > Should I get an rma for these or do you think there is something else > causing this? They are all using 1.50 of the firmware, though I did > have > the man with the outdoor airbridge backrev to 1.43 to see if that will > help. > > Thanks > Sam Morris, Owner > Loganet Internet Service > Logan IA > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe > smartBridges <yournickname> > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe > smartBridges) > Archives: http://198.63.203.6 The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://198.63.203.6
