I've not tried a ping flood....I would imagine that most networks would
experience packet loss during ping floods. I can do 64byte pings to these
guys for hours without loosing a packet. (or maybe 1 or 2)
-bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Metcalf" <dan.metcalf@wbsysnet.com>
To: "'Karlnet Mailing List'" <karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 1:15 AM
Subject: RE: [Karlnet] Turbocell Signal
> When doing ping floods do you see packet loss?
>
> Dan Metcalf
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: karlnet-bounces@WISPNotes.com
> [mailto:karlnet-bounces@WISPNotes.com]
> > On Behalf Of Bob Hrbek
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 3:58 PM
> > To: Karlnet Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [Karlnet] Turbocell Signal
> >
> > That describes my scenario well. 42 customers on one interface.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Caleb Carroll" <karlnet@pathcom.ca>
> > To: "Karlnet Mailing List" <karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 1:03 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Karlnet] Turbocell Signal
> >
> >
> > > I see this happen all the time. I notice this most often on AP's
> that
> > have more than 40 customers connecting on a single wireless interface.
> I
> > hardly ever see this happen when there are less than 20 customers
> > connecting. It could be caused by a bug in the Karlnet firmware or
> > possibly
> > just because the wireless medium or the AP's CPU is so busy that link
> > quality information is dropped.
> > >
> > > One method I've found that works most of the time, if you really
> need to
> > look at signal information is to flood ping the client for a couple of
> > seconds:
> > >
> > > ping -c 500 -f <ip address>
> > >
> > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
> > >
> > > On 2003-Apr-09 at 10:40 AM Steve Deaton wrote:
> > >
> > > >Anyone ever try to check signal and see nothing for any of the
> values?
> > > >Sometimes I'll check signal on a client (first open the AP list)
> and
> > see
> > > >nothing. All my clients are showing up, and I can ping everyone
> > without
> > > >any problems. I'll close the link test and re-open it several
> times
> > > >before I see any values for that client. It seems to be totally
> random
> > > >and does not happen to the same clients every time. Almost like my
> AP
> > > >is taking a smoke break or something.
> > > >
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