Hmm i have seen something like this several times before. How many pcs are
connected to the box. I have seen a bad network card take out the boxes or
even a pc with a bad powersupply. Try unplugging them all and bringing them
back online on at a time to see what one could be the bad apple.
Scott Wendrick
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From: "LaRoy McCann" <lmccann@roachconveyors.com>
To: "Karlnet Mailing List" <karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 3:39 PM
Subject: [Karlnet] OT-linksys, please help
> Hi all,
> I apologize if this is too far off topic but...
> I have been fighting this problem for several weeks now and don't have may
> hairs left to pull out.
>
> A local wireless company stopped their wireless operation as of the first
> of the year. I took over several of their customers. I replaced their
> electronics with my stuff running kalrnet. I used their existing amps and
> antennas.
>
> All is working well except for one customer. At this location I installed
> a flashrom satellite unit I had laying around. Signal strength looks find
> at 74% SNR or 28 dBm SNR. The wireless part seems to work fine. My whole
> wireless system is bridged, not routed. I even have come back and put in
a
> dedicated point to point link from my tower to the customer to try to
> eliminate any problems from the other base and KN-50's that I have.
>
> The problem is that after my wireless part I have a linksys 4-port
> router. This is the same type of router used by the other wireless
> company. The router will lock up and require a power cycle to make it
work
> again. It then works great. I tried another linksys router that I had,
> same but with the 2.4 wireless interface (disabled), and it would work
find
> and then lock up. The period of time between lockups seems to vary,
> anywhere from 5 minutes to half a day. But mostly now 5 to 10
> minutes. They have never had to reboot the wireless unit.
>
> I am sure I set the internal ip address to the same as the old linksys
> router even double checking with the list of address the customer had on
> file. The only odd thing about it is the ip's they are using internally
> are registered ip's. The network is 11.101.1 which shows to be registered
> to the DOD. Could this be the problem even if the router is doing NAT?
>
> I talked to the other wireless company and they said that when they put
the
> system in it was setup for 192.168.1 network. They were not routing any
> address to this customer for internal use. The customer can not tell my
> when or why it was changed. I was going to change everything, but they
> have one server running AIX. I am real familiar with Linux, but AIX is a
> little different and it is a critical server so I did not persue changing
> the ip's.
>
> I have even come in and put a switch after my wireless box and the linksys
> router, added a second linksys router off of the wireless box with a
> 192.168.1 network and tied this to one of their pc's leaving the rest of
> their network on the 11.101.1 network. The 192.168 address has worked
very
> well compared to the other but still requires a power cycle every couple
of
> days or so.
>
> I was also told that even with the old wireless provider they had to power
> cycle their linksys router every 2 or 3 days, but not every 5 to 10
minutes.
>
> Any help would be VERY MUCH appreciated !!!!
>
> LaRoy.
>
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