Is their any mesh networking capabilities with karlnet software or equipment
that works karlnet?
wes
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Walker" <rwalker@oacys.com>
To: "Karlnet Mailing List" <karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Karlnet] RE: Ping Jitter
> At 01:24 PM 9/12/2003, you wrote:
> > > The problem that I am seeing is not only dropped
> > > pings on links with perfect
> > > SNR (25?) but complete outages for the CPE for a few
> > > minutes, sometimes.
> >
> >Yes, I'm seeing this too but only on a few clients. At
> >least only a few clients have reported the problem.
> >The outages are always brief and the signal strengths
> >are good. I assume this is the same problem - can you
> >confirm Kevin? If so, you can save me (and others)
> >some time troubleshooting the issue and I will just
> >wait for the next update.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Paul
>
> Paul - I believe that I had the same problem here. We would have clients
> call us saying that their connection was down, we looked in the station
> list on the base and they were listed, yet we were unable to ping their
> radio or computer. In tracking this down I found that our network was
> occasionally being flooded by incoming pings that were generating a large
> number of broadcast ARP packets from the router (this was DoS traffic from
> the blaster.d worm coming in over the Internet). I realized that most all
> of our radios (base and client) had the storm threshold settings filled in
> - we never really thought it would block traffic unless there was a major
> problem since the threshold was 60pkts/sec. I used a firewall rate
limiter
> to block those DoS packets and our problem was solved. The problem
started
> about a month ago (about the time blaster.d was in the wild). You might
> want to look into this, we decided to only leave the threshold setting for
> the client Ethernet side. Good luck!
>
> -Ryan
>
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