I have seen exactly this in 2 'June' units. However, such a unit can be browsed and ping'd from the wireless side. And as Derek Breiland has said, the problem seems to be confined to the 'June' radios.
Since a power-cycle does not (always?) correct the aB's inability to communicate from other than the wireless side, the aB must be saving IP and MAC-related state in its flash (or other NV device). So, the question: what is it saving that prevents communication, and is that data correctly stored and retrieved (referring specifically to flash erase/write/read timing)? Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 20 October, 2003 15:16 Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Beta 1.0.08 locking up Ethernet anyone else?? The strange thing is the way that a power cycle (for me at least) did not appear to correct the issue (when I arrived at the premesis the unit was power cycled twice). Now, I'm aware of the ARP table issue, I have noticed that before (same IP / different MAC causes the AB occasionally to go nuts) so as a precaution I always power cycle before leaving the unit, and use a different reserved administrative IP to check connections. As I say, prior to actually logging into the unit with simplemonitor nothing was happening, as soon as I did a search in simple monitor, logged in, check the link state, logged out - changed IP to a public routable one all was well - worked flawlessly. Now, these are almost exactly the same circumstances under which the other unit failed. We use an ABO connected to another vendors 'bridge' as a cheap backhaul solution for a small number of customers. Now, I was going to replace the existing setup with 2 APO's (with 1.4.9? firmware) because of throughput issue (we currently get about 200Kilobytes/second - but the APO's have shown 550-600Kbyte/s throughput (~5Mbit). Anyway, when we did this we failed (long story - not relevant), but upon fixing back up our existing link - the ABO just would not come up. You could see it from the wireless side, the other vendors equipment reported a perfect association, but no traffic passed. A power cycle failed. Unit comes up - but nothing. Connected the laptop in, booted simplemonitor - logged into the AP, all perfect. Backlinks working again now (touch wood) under old setup. Anyway I hope the last few problems are soon resolved. Colin. ----------ANNOUNCEMENT---------- Don't forget to register for WISPCON IV http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm 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://archives.part-15.org
