Could it be that the board is getting to low a voltage?
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 20, 2009, at 7:00 PM, "Forbes Mercy" <forbes.me...@wabroadband.com > wrote: > We have a tower with a single radio operating on it. We were using a > Microtik 133 board with a single Prizim chipset in it. One day it > stopped responding to requests through the network using Winbox. No > customers were down so we assumed it was running bandwidth (too much > snow to travel up there). One night about 7 PM we started getting > tower > down calls, of course we hadn't been able to ping or get into it for > weeks so we had no idea. > > Took a back-up 433AH board up and used the same radio card, worked > like > a charm for both our access and customer throughput. We didn't want > to > waste a three port/LAN board so ordered a 433a single port board. > Once > it arrived we logged into it by MAC in the office with no problem, > programmed it and sent it up to the tower. Once on the tower > customers > associated just fine but once again we couldn't access the management > side. We saw the MAC and the identity for it but we couldn't ping > that > IP (yes, the 433AH radio was unplugged) and trying to load by MAC > would > start the RouterOS download but at various places it would crash. > > Moved the 433A down to the hut and a laptop easily logged into it, > even > when plugged into the switch, but we still couldn't log into it from > remote, although the laptop on scene was going through the same switch > and by MAC just like we were trying, sigh. OK we put the 433AH back > in > service and again everything worked great. I'm stumped, we isolated > the > switch, Cat 5, and IP Address but those two single cards won't allow > us > to log in over using Winbox either by IP or by MAC while it allows it > locally. *banging head against the wall. Any ideas? > > Forbes > > > --- > --- > --- > --- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > --- > --- > --- > --- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > 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: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
