[MLB-WIRELESS] DWL-900AP, bridgemode and sleep

Jason Hecker jhecker at wireless.org.au
Mon May 12 09:35:01 EST 2003


Seems a solution has been verified to work for the troublesome DWL-900AP's 
running default firmware 1.4h2.

It seems to fix the problem where the AP's were falling asleep in point to 
point bridge mode.

And I quote:

>I meant to send you mail over the weekend about this, actually.  It's
>working great!  I realised that what is required is to ping to a
>machine on the remote network that is *not* the bridge.  I think
>ethernet activity is what keeps the unit awake, so pinging from a host
>to a host means that packets are flowing across both ethernet
>interfaces.
>
>I'm running ping every 5 seconds and it's
>working *much* better.





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