How is your SNR when you do a link test?
Seems like anything under 20+ and you'll certainly see these issues.
-bob
----- Original Message -----
From: <bradlists@mnns.com>
To: <karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 11:02 PM
Subject: [Karlnet] Karlbridge radio lockups / Licensing Question (be
gentle!)
> Hello, all.
>
> I've got a HyperLink Tech "SOHO Mini-ROR" here that I inherited on a
buyout.
>
> I'm seeing somewhat regular radio interface lockups - "somewhat" meaning
> it happens often, but I cannot pin it down to a specific event or
> condition. By "lockup", I mean the radio still appears to be attempting
> to send and receive data, it's just all errors.
>
> It's used as a customer "uplink" to our network, and sees fairly heavy
> traffic all the time, compared to the average network user - 500-700kbps
> continuous, sometimes more.
>
> It's running KarlBridge 4.02, with an Avaya card internally running 8.10
> firmware.
>
> Performance is good overall when it's working, but RAS'ing in and
> rebooting the bridge when it locks up (about every other day) is getting
> to be a PITA.
>
> It's acting as an ROR master and connecting to a spare segment on a
> Lucent/Proxim ROR, running Lucent release 4.02 (actually, Karlnet 4.15,
> correct?), and Lucent cards running 8.10 FW. I have not tried rebooting
> the Lucent ROR to see if it restores the link like rebooting the SOHO
> does, I'm using the other wireless segment for backhaul of other traffic,
> so I've been avoiding any outages on purpose.
>
> It also appears to lockup with a Lucent card running FW 8.10 as well (I
> know, virtually the same thing with the exception of vendor ID's), so it
> doesn't appear to be the radio per-se. It also happens with another like
> unit I have sitting here as a spare.
>
> One oddity I noticed is that no matter what card I put in the slot with
> 8.x firmware, it's reported as 7.52 in the configurator. But it *is* 8.10
> because that was the trigger for me disassembling the unit to check it
> out!
>
> So, my question is two-fold. First, does this sound like a firmware
> issue? I'm not intimately familiar with the idiosyncrasies of each
> Karlnet release, which is why I'm asking the experts :) Secondly, since I
> don't have a license key with the unit, how (or should I ask - can) do I
> go about getting or retrieving a key and/or access to updated firmware to
> push into the router?
>
> If it sounds like a router firmware related issue, and I'm toast since I
> don't have a key (and end up unable to retrieve one), I'm willing to
> purchase a new firmware license just to get this monkey off my back, so
> pointers here would be appreciated as well.
>
> Thanks in advance for any and all help you can give! I appreciate it!
>
>
> Brad
>
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