Re: [leaf-wisp] Wireless dropout

Vladimir Ivaschenko <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.leaf.wisp-dist
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The DHCPRELEASE is definitely a message sent by the AP. So it looks 
like that the AP decided to drop the connection all by itself, I don't 
know why.

[email protected] wrote:
> Vladimir,
> 
> I tested my AP once again and it dropped the wireless connection after about
> 5 minutes.  Watching the connection monitor, the channel changed
> occasionally from 11 to 10 and back, suggesting some frequency drift, but
> that may have just been a glitch in the monitor program.
> 
> The Wisp-Dist log shows the following for the event.
> 
> Apr 24 14:54:27 fpcwireless dhcpd: DHCPRELEASE of 192.168.5.2 from
> 00:02:6f:05:58:fe via netcs0 (found)
> Apr 24 14:54:27 fpcwireless kernel: handle_ap_item -
> addr3(BSSID)=27:72:af:75:cb:ec not own MAC
> 
> I do not know why it dropped the dhcp assignment for the connection.  The
> lease time is the default 604800.
> 
> The entry following the DHCPRELEASE is strange, but I suspect that it is
> related to signal interference from another source.  The other AP in the
> building is running on channel 6 while the Soekris AP is running Wisp-Dist
> is on channel 11.  They use completely different ESSIDs.  I don't have the
> other mac address of the other AP handy, but will check it out later today.
> 
> Dan Loomis
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Best Regards,
Vladimir Ivashchenko
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