On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:05:36 +1100 Alex Samad <a...@samad.com.au> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 05:25:55PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > [back on list] > > > > On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 09:06:16 +1100 > > Alex Samad <a...@samad.com.au> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 01:20:58AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > > > On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 17:13:11 +1100 > > > > Alex Samad <a...@samad.com.au> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 08:10:43PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > > > > > > > The AP should be able to see it at all times > > > > > > > > Thanks, but I don't think that's it. The problematic machine remains > > > > connected to the AP; as I mentioned, it can access the internet fine. > > > > > > Okay, what about then you can't access from the local lan, have you > > > tried running a tcpdump on the wireless link to see if the arp requests > > > are making it to the machine ? > > > > That's certainly a good suggestion; ISTR that I tried that last time I > > had the problem, but I'll have to try it again and report back. > > when I am trying to track problems like this I usually like to have > tcpdump running on the 2 machines and if possible on the wireless router Yes, I tried that previously, but as you surmise, I can't run it on the AP, which is running proprietary firmware, and the hardware doesn't support an open fw :(. I'm actually playing with openwrt on two spare routers that I have, but I have not yet switched out my production one. > I am guessing you don't have openwrt or ddwrt on some linux distro on > the ap. But if you can see the arp request leaving the lan box and not > making > it to the wireless box then it might be a ap problem I currently don't have access to the wireless network in question, but I'll be playing with tcpdump next time I do. Thanks for the help. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
