On Saturday 19 January 2008, Juan Miscaro wrote:
> --- Alexander Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Juan Miscaro wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am using OpenBSD 4.2 as my WAP with a ral adapter. My wireless
> > > client is running Kubuntu.
> > >
> > > The server is running dnsmasq (DHCP/DNScaching) and everything
> >
> > works.
> >
> > > However, after a while the connection breaks completely and the
> >
> > only
> >
> > > thing that rectifies the situation is a reboot on the serverside.
> > >
> > > I thought this instability may be a simplex/duplex issue. Here is
> >
> > the
> >
> > > ifconfig ouput for ral0:
> > >
> > > ral0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> > > lladdr 00:18:f8:28:b9:f4
> > > groups: wlan
> > > media: IEEE802.11 autoselect mode 11g hostap
> > > status: active
> > > ieee80211: nwid WIFILAN chan 11 bssid 00:18:f8:28:b9:f4
> >
> > 100dBm
> >
> > > inet6 fe80::218:f8ff:fe28:b9f4%ral0 prefixlen 64 scopeid
> >
> > 0x1
> >
> > > inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> > >
> > > Can someone please advise on troubleshooting methods?
> >
> > I have had similar issues with a ral device. If I recall correctly,
> >
> > $ sudo ifconfig down
> > $ sudo ifconfig up
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> I assume you mean
>
> $ sudo ifconfig ral0 down
> $ sudo ifconfig ral0 up
>
> Anyway, I'm pretty pissed because my research led me to conclude that
> the ral device was well supported. I paid top dollar for the thing.
I use a ral(4) in a similar configuration (host AP mode for home wireless
network) and it never misses a beat. In order to troubleshoot this issue you
really need to workout what happens when it "stops working":
o Does "tcpdump -i ral0" show any traffic flow?
o Can you connect to it from another client?
o Can you still see SSID broadcasts?
o Does downing and upping the interface fix the problem?
The output from "ifconfig -M" may also be helpful. Also, it might help if
people knew what hardware this is actually running on (embedded device/i386
workstation/etc).
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