-----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Paul Julian Sent: Thursday, 29 January 2015 12:59 PM To: public@talk.mikrotik.com.au Subject: [MT-AU Public] Strange routerboard behavoir
Hi guys, we have a large hotspot site which is doing some funny things and I was just wondering if anybody may have seen similar behaviour before.
We have a 5Ghz backhaul network which runs flawlessly, running with a mix of SXT's and Omnitiks from a central AP out to a number of CPE's. Off the back of each CPE we run a 411 with a 2.4Ghz radio in it and an omni antenna, plugged into ether1 on each device. What happens sometimes is that we lose sight of the AP connected to a CPE, we can't ping it, however the AP shows in the neighbours list on the CPE and the Ethernet port shows as running, for all intents and purposes everything looks fine, however when you try to telnet from the CPE to the AP you can't connect, when you try and mac-telnet from the CPE to the AP it disconnects and doesn't work.
After a varying period of time the connection just starts working again,
Hi Mike, it seems to be the AP that is playing up, although in saying that I am not 100% sure because it just starts working, I've never really been able to do anything that actually gets it to work except a reboot of the AP, so realistically it could be the AP or CPE but I think it's the AP as I can still get into the CPE via wireless. Some devices are 5.25 still, others 6.11 or higher, the AP and CPE always match versions also. The wireless from the CPE to the backhaul AP is using station mode, it's a routed network and the wireless backhaul network is solid, I haven't seen one drop in that since the last reboot of the whole network 2 months ago. We had another one do it yesterday, just dropped off then came back 3 times, first time disappeared for 3h25m, second time 6h42m, 3rd time 30m, so now I can get back into it I can see it's been up for 59 days, the log on the CPE shows nothing happening at the time the AP dropped off, the log of the AP also shows nothing in the logs, as if we never lost contact with it and it never had a problem. Strange.... Regards Paul -----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Mike Everest Sent: Thursday, 29 January 2015 3:51 PM To: 'MikroTik Australia Public List' Subject: Re: [MT-AU Public] Strange routerboard behavoir Hi Paul, Is this what we are talking about?: 5GHz-base-station <---> CPE <---> 2GHz-AP And the 'CPE' is the one that behaves badly in the manner described? What software version is on each one, and how is it configured? Is the CPE mode station or station bridge or something else? And what interface is the IP attached to? Cheers! Mike. the
uptime of the AP is normal, i.e. it hasn't lost power or rebooted and everything just works OK....until the next time which could be hours or days, no pattern seems to exist.
Has anybody encountered such issues before at all ? I have so far replaced the Ethernet joiner between the radios and also replaced the power pack and POE injectors which feed the radios.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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