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Re: [58crew] RE: IETF58 - Network Status
2003-11-13 17:11:27
On Thursday 13 November 2003 14:46, Romascanu, Dan (Dan) wrote:
Yes, this looks to affect some models of cards and drivers more than other.
Unfortunately, I fell this time in the unlucky category. The same model of
card, driver, and OS that worked perfectly for many in many other similar
events, including the last three or four IETF meetings made my work
impossible this whole week with the wireless setting at this IETF network.
On this respect this was - for me - by far the worst IETF since I am using
wireless connectivity. Sorry guys.
The only thing thing you have to be sorry for is not coming to us sooner. If
you had come to us sooner, we could have been able to solve some of your
problems or fix it all together.
We hope that by working together to solve these problems we can help you out.
I have heard many comments from many people that this has been a great
wireless IETF. We identified several client problems, and we saw a larger
number of infected machines. If the wireless did suffer (which I don't think
it did because of our volunteer team who worked VERY hard and configuring it)
it was due to problems simply beyond our control.
And as always, we are happy to take in more volunteers. If there is something
you don't like, hop on board and solve the problems!
Cheers, and I hope to hear more from you, in realtime next time these issues
pop up.
--Brett
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
[mailto:owner-ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org]On
Behalf Of Roland Bless
Sent: 13 November, 2003 7:08 PM
To: Randall Gellens
Cc: 58crew(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org; ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: IETF58 - Network Status
Hi Randall,
I have been consistently unable to maintain a connection for more
than a very few minutes, usually not even long enough to
establish a
VPN tunnel and fetch one message. The 802.11 coverage comes and
goes; the APs seem to vanish and I see nothing for a while,
eventually the network comes back but only briefly. This has been
I can partly confirm your observations, since
I often see my driver reporting a signal strength of 0 for seconds.
The connection is somehow unstable as my log also reports
(NSIS meeting this morning, actually not crowded)
Nov 13 10:41:01 kernel: eth1: New link status: AP In Range (0005)
Nov 13 10:41:03 kernel: eth1: New link status: AP Changed (0003)
Nov 13 10:41:25 kernel: eth1: New link status: AP Out of Range (0004)
Nov 13 10:41:26 kernel: eth1: New link status: AP In Range (0005)
Nov 13 10:42:58 kernel: eth1: New link status: AP Changed (0003)
Nov 13 10:45:18 kernel: eth1: New link status: AP Out of Range (0004)
Nov 13 10:45:18 kernel: eth1: New link status: AP In Range (0005)
Nov 13 10:45:18 kernel: eth1: New link status: AP Changed (0003)
Nov 13 10:45:23 kernel: eth1: New link status: AP Out of Range (0004)
Nov 13 10:45:24 kernel: eth1: New link status: AP In Range (0005)
Nov 13 10:45:54 kernel: eth1: New link status: AP Changed (0003)
Nov 13 10:46:28 kernel: eth1: New link status: AP Out of Range (0004)
Nov 13 10:46:28 kernel: eth1: New link status: AP In Range (0005)
... and so on...
however, it seems also to depend on the cards firmware and driver,
so other people may have no problems at all...
Inspite all the problems, it works well enough to get things
actually done.
the case in every session I've attended, as well as tonight's
plenary. It doesn't seem to matter if the room is crowded
or empty,
or where I sit.
I have attempted to only select the 'ietf58' network, but often the
network vanishes and there are no networks visible; other times the
only visible "network" is an ad-hoc calling itself 'ietf58'.
I wasn't often successful to reattach to APs after my card was
"hi-jacked" to ad-hoc cards announcing ietf58. Setting the
essid again to the same value seems to do trick, however,
often I see signals of strength 0 (maybe the card is confused then..).
Furthermore, it happens often that I don't get an IPv6 address
directly after activating the card (maybe the RA doesn't get through).
Cheers,
Roland
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