On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:56:18AM -0600, Daniel Melameth wrote:
[ral PCI card performed poorly in hostap mode; packet loss etc]
> Have you tried setting the channel and/or forcing the mode? I also
> have a ral-based AP and while it performs fairly well, its reliability
> and consistency does not appear to be as good as the wi-based APs.
(Sorry for the late reply - I was away for a few weeks)
Well, the problem was the antenna and/or the placement of the antenna. I
used a separate antenna from the start, but for testing I tried another
one in a different location (unreachable with the first antenna). This
solved the problem entirely: even ping -f doesn't lose one single packet
nor reports any duplicates, and that is with ping -f running for a good
30 seconds.
There's one thing that I noticed though, the contents of hostname.ral0 are:
inet 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0 NONE media autoselect mediaopt hostap nwid
stupendous mode 11g
When I put a "nwflag nobridge" in there, it doesn't work. It complains
about not being able to set the flag. (Sorry, I didn't copy-paste the error
message). Only after the interface is placed in hostap mode, I can set the
nobridge flag, both with ifconfig and netstart ral0. Does this sound
familiar to anyone? Should I gather more data so I can create a proper
report?
--
Jurjen Oskam
Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
