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Re: [Karlnet] Strange ping loss

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Subject: Re: [Karlnet] Strange ping loss
From: "Norm Young" <lists@applegatebroadband.net>
Reply-to: Norm Young <npyoung@applegatebroadband.net>, Karlnet Mailing List<karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:17:08 -0700
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I'm sure you can.  It may be that the problem showed up when I went to 4.43
on the base.  I went the other way and upgraded all my clients to 4.43 while
trying to fix this problem....no change.  I haven't tried to downgrade the
base to see if that makes the problem go away.

Norm

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Hrbek" <bhrbek@jagwireless.net>
To: "Norm Young" <npyoung@applegatebroadband.net>; "Karlnet Mailing List"
<karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Karlnet] Strange ping loss


> many of my RG clients are using the new 4.41 fw.  I wonder if that is the
> cause?  Can I downgrade these?
>
> -bob
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Norm Young" <lists@applegatebroadband.net>
> To: "Karlnet Mailing List" <karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 10:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [Karlnet] Strange ping loss
>
>
> > Hi Bob,
> >
> > I think that I may be seeing the same thing.   I noticed that sometime
> this
> > summer as I added clients to our WIPOP the jitter from the clients to
the
> > AP/NOC really went bad (as previously mentioned) AND I'm seeing timeouts
> on
> > my SNMP traffic grapher occasionally, and if I do a ping from the
clients
> to
> > the NOC.  I'm going to try and replace the AP1000 (relegating it to
> > backhaul) with a WPG01 (and cross my fingers and hope I don't have
lockup
> > problems), while splitting the  clients across two radios/antennas and
see
> > what that does.   The amount of loading (according to what Karlnet
states
> is
> > possible) on this base is moderate, say 20 clients!   I've already tried
> > updating firmware, trying new radios at the base, all without any
change.
> >
> > Norm
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Bob Hrbek" <bhrbek@jagwireless.net>
> > To: "Karlnet Mailing List" <karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 6:43 AM
> > Subject: [Karlnet] Strange ping loss
> >
> >
> > > I have an Orinoco COR v4.15 with about 14 RG-1000 clients and 1
AP-1000
> > that
> > > is serving as a POP and backhaul for the small pop.   In all, about 35
> > > clients are going through this AP, in on way or another.
> > >
> > > I have a monitoring system that pings all the clients every 2 minutes.
> > > (Because of this problem, I stuck a monitoring box at the bottom of
this
> > > tower)  It keeps reporting the clients as un-reachable.  I've not
> > contacted
> > > any of them but had one complaint off the remote AP-1000
> Satellite/Base.
> > >
> > > My testing:
> > >
> > > I did a 1000 byte ping to one client.  I left it running all night.
> > >
> > > --- 10.100.105.16 ping statistics ---
> > > 43477 packets transmitted, 43474 received, 0% loss, time 43582095ms
> > > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 9.543/15.222/311.773/11.513 ms
> > >
> > >
> > > Out of 43477, I lost 3 packets!!!!!  My max ping time was 311ms.  The
> > client
> > > I was pinging was the only one that I never received an outage
> > notification
> > > on last night.  Previously I was getting 20 or more per day.
> > >
> > > The stats on the AP don't look wonderful.  Re-transmits are about 10%
> for
> > > the clients that I get the most outages reports on.  Overall in FCS
> errors
> > > are only .3% (yes that is point 3%) of the total inbound packets. I
> > believe
> > > I have some RF issues at this site but WHY, if I ping a client
> constantly,
> > > will I be successful 43,374 times out of 43,477 and still drop so many
> > > monitoring pings when I'm not constantly pinging him?  I even disabled
> > > polling on this ap and it didn't change anything but lower the ping
> times.
> > >
> > > If I didn't know better, I'd say I had a duplicate IP address but it
is
> > > affecting about 10 of the RG"s on a regular basis.  No dupes out
there.
> I
> > > checked.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts?
> > >
> > > -Bob
> > >
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