[MLB-WIRELESS] SVEC sleep - solution?

Andrew Harcourt gfg687472609 at geckomail.org
Mon Oct 13 12:55:42 EST 2003


If you don't have a guarantee that there will be a machine on the
wireless side of the link, you could try a broadcast ping across that
entire subnet...




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Hecker (via GeckoMail) 
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> Sent: Monday, 13 October 2003 9:47 AM
> To: andrewh at uglybugger.org
> Cc: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] SVEC sleep - solution?
> 
> You need to run a ping that traverses the entire link - in 
> one ethernet, 
> through the aether and back out the other sides ethernet 
> port.  That will 
> keep it awake.  Once an hour should be fine.  So a ping from 
> a machine on 
> one side to a machine on the other will do the trick.
> 
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Joe Hovel wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone found a solution to the SVEC AP going to sleep yet?
> > I just got mine set up and it seems to stop  its WLAN ops 
> after 24 hrs - yet still responds to LAN pings (which doesn't 
> wake it up!)
> > I have to cycle power to get it to respond to WLAN requests....
> > Could it have something to do with DHCP? I'll try turning 
> it off tomorrow to test.
> > Cheers,
> > Joe in Bendigo
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> Cheers,
> jASON
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