Hi guys, started deploying rb433ah/sr2 or xr2 AP’s (atheros) in place of our ubiquity powerstation 2’s.
70% of our subs work pretty darn good, they use Engenius 2611p or 1650 cpe’s (atheros chipsets), the other peoples use 3220 ext (realtek chipsets)
The 3220-ext’s flat out refuse to re-dial pppoe after the AP is rebooted, or the wireless session re-associates. the customer has to physically power cycle the CPE to log back in.
the latest firmware 1.43.05 supposedly resolved that issue, and it did on our powerstation 2 sectors. but on our Mikrotik/XR2 sectors it’s back.
Any suggestions for maybe a setting i need to change to let these guys redial PPPOE proper? I mean as far as i know the xr2 has a 5413 chipset, the SR2 has a 5213 and the powerstation had a 5004 based chipset i think. so the difference between AP’s should be little to none right? Ive tried as best i can to duplicate the settings too.
So you have a MikroTik AP and the clients are some Engenius devices. They have PPPoE clients that dial to the MikroTik AP. When connection resets, the clients don’t redial?
exactly correct. The engenious devices acting as a pppoe client redialed pppoe properly on a ubiquity powerstation 2 EXT AP. Now that we are using MT/XR2 AP’s The Realtek chipset based engenious CPE’s wont redial PPPOE after a connection reset. The Atheros chipset based engenious CPEs do just fine tho.
Im wondering if there isnt a connection timeout setting somewhere that isnt getting enforced due to the chipset difference?
I might be able to try a prism chipset wireless card and test and see if the problem follows…
ok not entirely true i did find a way they wont redial on a prism card. i disabled the pppoe server for a bit, and then enabled it. the pppoe didnt redial. I then disabled the prism wireless card and re-enabled. PPPOE did not redial under those conditons. Power cycled CPE and it logged in. I wonder if the CPE has a finite number of PPPOE retries before it gives up?
This much is clear with the prism card, i can disable and enable the wireless AP and the realtek based engenious CPE’s redial. With the XR2 or SR2 they do not.
Ok i think im going insane. The unit on my test bench now is redialing pppoe like wayne brady pimps-ho’s today, regular.
yesterday it was behaving like all my units in the field, today its acting like the atheros units.
The only difference between what im doing with the test unit, and the units in the field is normally i only reboot the WLAN card after i start sEeing bad behavior. I.E. The pppoe sessions drop and the wlan interface is barely passing any traffic. This is happening at 2 seperate physical locations on 3 production ap’s… but today, all is well on the test bench.
Im starting wonder if this problem has more to do with the manner in which the AP goes down in the first place. something that makes the old cpe’s not want to redial pppoe after wireless link comes back up.