#3738 NORM Untriag: Active Antennas cease to route properly after several weeks of operation

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#3738: Active Antennas cease to route properly after several weeks of operation
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 Reporter:  wad                                  |       Owner:  jg       
     Type:  defect                               |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Untriaged
Component:  distro                               |     Version:           
 Keywords:  mesh, active antenna, school server  |    Verified:  0        
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 On schoolserver.laptop.org, the active antenna stopped providing
 connectivity after a period of continuous operation (over a week).  The
 failure was originally attributed to a poor RF environment, but it was
 cleared up by a power cycle.

 The symptoms were that laptops could see the mesh beacon, and could
 associate and discover a mesh portal using DHCP correctly.  After this,
 they could not even ping the mesh portal.   Sometimes moving them closer
 to the server corrected the problem.  When rebooted, even laptops close to
 the mesh portal had problems pinging it.

 ifconfig showed that the mesh interface was still present, and iwconfig
 showed that it was at the expected frequency and ESSID.

 Is anyone doing longetivity testing of the firmware running on the active
 antennas ?

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Ticket URL: <https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3738>
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