#4201 BLOC First D: Wireless connectivity goes away after good connection

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#4201: Wireless connectivity goes away after good connection
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  Reporter:  kimquirk  |       Owner:  marcelo               
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  new                   
  Priority:  blocker   |   Milestone:  First Deployment, V1.0
 Component:  wireless  |     Version:                        
Resolution:            |    Keywords:                        
  Verified:  0         |  
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Changes (by mbletsas):

  * owner:  dcbw => marcelo
  * component:  network manager => wireless


Comment:

 Some facts:

 The wireless infrastructure at 1CC is part of the Media Lab's wireless
 network (essid "media lab 802.l1").

 As in every other semi-public network, DHCP lease durations have to be
 kept short.
 The peak use of ML's network is observed during sponsor week (which
 happened to be last week). It also happens to be the one week that
 whatever issues arise, tend to be dealt very quickly.

 Given that the crowds were at the lab on Tue-Thu, I tend to believe that
 the probability that we ended up with no DHCP addresses on Friday is very
 close to zero.



 What we did change on our end towards the end of the week, is the suspend
 testing and there is one issue with the AP used that might be causing
 traffic storms.
 https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1863

 The same issue could also be the cause of the "unwanted" wakeups.
 https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3504

 As far as I am concerned, the only reason for having that ticket, is the
 fact that I observed hung firmware in 1CC on Friday, something that I
 haven't seen for a long time and a good reason to sound a loud alarm at
 Marvell.

 M.

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