Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:10:58 -0400 From: Martes G Wigglesworth <martes@mgwigglesworth.com> To: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Can routed cause interference with hostap and stability of Wireless Connectivity? Message-ID: <1207678258.93249.11.camel@localhost>
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I have inquired about this on local lists, however, no one ever seems to even comprehend what I am asking, so I will inquire here. When fielding a newer, less resource rich system as access point/router, I noticed that after about five minutes of a client securing a good connection, the ip address of the ath0 device dissappeared from the routing table, and routed began spitting out errors indicating that it could not find the route, etc... When this behavior starts/started the connectivity also becomes unstable; meaning that any client connected to the AP sees the connection fail, and restore, in a sinusoidal manor. I am using WPA-PSK on hostap, with no other authentication facilities. When I killed routed and restored the system to functional levels, there was no new appearance of the issues with connectivity, or loss of ath0's ip from the routing table. Have any other BSD router installs shown such issues? And when should routed even be used? I was just experimenting with it so see if it would be useful for any more complex routing environments, however, I never actually got a chance to research acurate uses of the daemon process, prior to the issues being seen. Thanks. SPECS: Pentium III 850Mhz 128MB SDRAM Freebsd-6.3-Stable Netgear W311 Wireless-G PCI -- Martes G Wigglesworth <martes@mgwigglesworth.com> M.G.Wigglesworth,LLC
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