Splitting antenna

2021-11-19 Thread D';Arcy Cain
I am using my FreeBSD box as my main ingress to my RV trailer. We move around and sometimes use Ethernet, sometimes PPP directly on DSL and sometimes we connect to a local wifi hotspot. To get the best connection I have mounted an external, multi-band antenna on the trailer and connect it to

Re: Network woes SOLVED!

2020-11-04 Thread D';Arcy Cain
On 10/29/20 7:02 AM, D'Arcy Cain wrote: Turns out it has nothing to do with virtualization.  It never occurred to me to test that the host could access the Internet since I had no problem connecting and logging in.  However, everything I described for the VM applies to the host as well. 

Re: Network woes,Network woes

2020-10-29 Thread D';Arcy Cain
On 10/29/20 10:52 AM, D'Arcy Cain wrote: I will try upgrading. Nice try, D'Arcy. how do you plan to do that without networking? :-( -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/| and a sheep voting on +1 416 788 224

Re: Network woes,Network woes

2020-10-29 Thread D';Arcy Cain
On 10/29/20 7:41 AM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: Here is a ProLiant DL360 Gen9 server with the same type of Ethernet card: Yes, same server as I have. It's the only Gen9 that I have so far. % grep 'HP Ethernet' /var/run/dmesg.boot bge0: mem 0x92b9-0x92b9,0x92ba-0x92ba,0x92bb00

Network woes

2020-10-29 Thread D';Arcy Cain
NOTE: Was "Bridge woes" On 10/25/20 1:32 PM, D'Arcy Cain wrote: I have been trying to solve this problem for a week now.  I have been emailing the virtualization list (Re: When is a switch not a switch?) because it had to do with vm-bhyve but now I am wondering if it is somethin

Re: Bridge woes

2020-10-28 Thread D';Arcy Cain
On 10/28/20 10:27 AM, Michael Gmelin wrote: Can you (afford to) reboot the machine reliably? If so, schedule a reboot using "shutdown -r +10" and then bring down the the interface to see if it makes a difference. Nope. No difference. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain | Democracy is three wolves

Re: Bridge woes

2020-10-28 Thread D';Arcy Cain
On 10/27/20 2:58 PM, Michael Gmelin wrote: I hope you don't mind but I reverted this conversation back to the list in case it gives someone else any ideas. Hi, I tried to reproduce the problem on my home network, but things just work as expected. I could run VMs with IPs off the local netwo

Bridge woes

2020-10-25 Thread D';Arcy Cain
I have been trying to solve this problem for a week now. I have been emailing the virtualization list (Re: When is a switch not a switch?) because it had to do with vm-bhyve but now I am wondering if it is something else. Maybe some of the network experts here can help. Basically I have the

Re: WiFi hotspot keeps dropping

2020-06-21 Thread D';Arcy Cain
On 2020-06-19 12:14, Adrian Chadd wrote: > [snip] Also, did you plug in something USB-3 related recently? :-) > > USB-3 / USB-C's signaling frequency interferes with 2.4GHz :-) No. The only USB-C I have is my phone which I have never plugged into the computer. Here's another data point. It see

Re: WiFi hotspot keeps dropping

2020-06-20 Thread D';Arcy Cain
On 2020-06-19 12:13, Adrian Chadd wrote: > If I can't keep it running can someone suggest a system test I can do to > decide that hostapd needs to be restarted? > > So, you shouldn't need to restart hostapd after a stuck beacon. It > should recover. That was my understanding. > One t

WiFi hotspot keeps dropping

2020-06-18 Thread D';Arcy Cain
I have set up my FreeBSD box as a gateway. It used to work fine but suddenly my hotspot keeps failing. It drops a few times a day. Restarting hostapd gets it back up again but I really want to keep it up. I am running FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC amd64. My WiFi card is: ath0@pci0:1:0:0: