Received WEP Errors

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Guys,

My Access Point is reporting a noticible WEP errors (Packets that have WEP encryption errors) although I did not enable this feature!? I have disabled the WEP encryption in my AP-so why I am receiving this error?

Atheer

2

Normis, can you reply here please?

3

Show os some log of it

/Henrik

4

Diganet,
here is a snapshot of what AP is reporting:

=== System Statistics ===

[Ethernet Receive ]
Packets :552817
Total Bytes :507625519

[Ethernet Transmit]
Packets :466720
Total Bytes :47383899

[Wireless Receive ]
Fragments : 569348
Unicast Packets : 551954
Unicast Bytes : 58609758
Multicast Packets :8679
Multicast Bytes : 902570
Packet FCS Errors : 693155

[ Wireless Transmit ]
Fragments :848030
Unicast Packets :541382
Unicast Bytes :504600740
Multicast Packets : 17394
Multicast Bytes :1179691
Deferred Transmissions :1940122
Retry Limit Exceed : 14237
Single Retries : 69243
Multiple Retries : 51544

[Wireless Receive Discards ]
No Buffer :5
Received WEP Errors :6515

[ Wireless Transmit Discard]
Wrong Source Address :0
Other Reasons :856



I have high lighted the major errors which I think caused by interference

waiting your reply my friend

Atheer

5

My best guess is that some clients is trying to connect to your SSID using WEP.

Can you post config?

/Henrik

6

Diganet,

what kind of configuration would you like me to post here?

but keep in mind that my AP has been config to work without WEP or WPA, I have disabled all the authentications.

by the way Diganet, what does it mean by unicast and multicast packets? and what is the cause of huge amount of deffered and FCS errors?


thanks

Atheer

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Would like to see your RouterOS configuration, also know what board and radio you are using.

unicast packets is host to host communication, multicast is broadcast packets.

/Henrik

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Diganet,

I do not think the RouterOS has anything to do with this problem. Its all about my access point.

I am using RouterOS 2.9.27 on Pentium 4 processor, and my AP is wireless interactive..I am using 802.11b frequencies.

Atheer

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Atheer,

This forum is for RouterOS/Routerboard related stuff.

/Henrik