[Noisebridge-discuss] Wifi woes

[Jonathan Lassoff]

Encapsulated within <4EA9AA86-C8B4-4F37-A0C8-CE2898E03297 at gmail.com> on Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 08:01:41PM -0700, Dougie <daworley at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Dougie <daworley at gmail.com>
> To: NoiseBridge <Noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
> Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Wifi woes
> 
> As of right now, the wifi here is borked.

Ack. Sorry to hear it. I've had unexplained issues in the past with the Ruckus
Wireless access point that serves SSID "noisebridge" and
"noisebridge-public" right now.

It has been awesome in the past, and has starting sucking more over
time. I haven't had time to diagnose what the root cause is, Cisco 2.4
Ghz APs seem to show similar loss. Increased noise/traffic on 2.4 Ghz?
Maybe explicit 802.11 RTS/CTS can help us.

> Out of the three noisebridge SSIDs visible (noisebridge, noisebridge- 
> a, noisebridge-public), only noisebridge-a is accepting connections.   
> The open "noisebridge" fails with my own and others' machines.   
> MacBook Pros, Thinkpads... not a driver issue, looks like the network.

"noisebridge-a" is a seperate Cisco Aironet AP upstairs in the closet
with all the gear by the electronics lab. dr_jesus and I have been
messing around with these as a potential replacement for the Ruckus.

> For some deranged reason, I cannot see the MAC addresses for any of  
> the WAPs, which may explain why they are not on the LAN.  Pinging the  
> subnet then pulling up arp and netstat tables do not show those MAC  
> addresses as assigned to IP addresses.
> 
> I see it looks like whatever VLANs were assigned to these Wifi  
> networks aren't resolving properly.

SSID's "noisebridge" and "noisebridge-public" are on the same VLAN as
wired ports - VLAN 11. SSID "noisebridge-public" is on the "public" VLAN
6.
More info here: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Network

> I'll be here for another hour or so.  If an admin wants to take care  
> of it, great.  If not, I'm offering to help.

I can't stop by tonight, but would be happy to lend help from remote.
You can find my contact info on my User page on the wiki:
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/User:Jof

Cheers,
jonathan
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