Cisco AP350 - Configuration issue???
Tom Balon <[email protected]>
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Forgive me if this has been covered before, I've been off this list for a while. I recently upgraded a Cisco AP350 to IOS. The upgrade worked without a hitch. The unit came up just fine running the new IOS release. The unit was set to factory defaults. (Cisco states the upagrade to IOS cannot be undone. Once converted from VxWorks, the unit is forever bound to IOS.) Since then, I have been unable to maintain any associations to clients running Orinoco cards. These are the same cards and that worked great before. The log on the AP350 keeps showing clients loosing their association due to excessive retries. Cisco cards do better, but still have issues. In short, clients are constantly loosing their association due to excessive retries (both cisco and orinoco). Diagnostics for the clients show the AP sending RTS packets even when RTS is set to it's maximum. I tried setting it to zero, it still sends RTS packets. There are tons of retries. The cards always seem to fallback to 1Mbs rate. Last night, I tried again, flashing with the latest 12.2(15) IOS release. Set to derfaults. Same thing. Netstumber shows the AP available then un-available, sometimes for long periods of time. I've tried swapping antennas. Setting to long headers, turning off cisco extensions, raising max retries. In short, a week of trial and error. In the end, I put a BR-500 in and was up and running in no time, without any issues. So, what am I missing here ? Are others out there in the same boat as me with their AP350's running IOS ? One person I spoke with said they have the same issue with all their 350's after upgrading to IOS. Now I see where Cisco has discontinued support for the AP350. These issues only appeared *after* the upgrade to IOS. -T __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover _______________________________________________ BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless