Tom Murphy wrote:
> Alexander Hall wrote:
>
>> I'll second this; from a gw of mine:
>>
>> $ sudo crontab -l | grep ral0
>> # Down and up ral0 on failure
>> * * * * * ifconfig ral0 | grep -q
>> OACTIVE && { ifconfig \
>> ral0; echo "\n *****\n"; ifconfig ral0 down; sleep 1; ifconfig ral0
>> up; ifconfig \
>> ral0; }
>>
>> /Alexander
>
> Hi Alexander,
>
> What does the 'OACTIVE' mean? I put that crontab entry in and about 5
> times already
> it came up with OACTIVE in the ifconfig output and it downed the
> interface and brought it back up.
> So far the machine has stayed up and hasn't locked up solid yet. Is
> downing the interface and bringing
> it back up when it's 'OACTIVE' help prevent the box from locking up?
No idea really. I noticed sometimes that the ral0 interface stopped
working and the down+up dance made it work again. Later I noticed that
the OACTIVE flag was set when the card locked up. For me, the box itself
never locked up, but rather the AP just got inaccesible.
I skimmed through the code but to no avail.
/Alexander
