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Subject: Re: ath0 goes down periodically
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Emil Mikulic wrote:
> At home I have a FreeBSD 6-CURRENT machine with an ath card acting as an
> access point.  Every once in a while, wireless traffic stops and I have
> to log in to this machine and manually bounce the interface to get it
> going again.
> 
> I noticed that when this sort of outage occurs I can't ping from the
> hostap machine on the wifi interface.  It looks like the interface queue
> is full. (?)

When this happens can you see beacons being xmit'd by the ap?  Also the 
output of athstats (src/tools/tools/ath) may be useful.

	Sam