Re: [Bismark-devel] switching issue on device

[Kim Hawtin <kim@hawtin.net.au>]

On 18/04/11 11:15, Dave Taht wrote:
> In Nick's case he had AP isolation on, which isolates individual
> wireless clients from each other on the same AP.
>
> Most cafe's and public wifi spots have this on. Home users and anyone
> doing p2p stuff should have it off, and it should be off by default.
>
> It's ironic that people trust the internet more than machines
> topologically close by these days.
>
> So if you have AP isolation on in your WPA case and off in your WEP
> case, that's probably the real diagnosis.

I will check this out when I get home. Its quite possible its the 
default on my AP.

I need to image my older WRT54g with bismark and tinker with it directly.

> I've *also* seen all kinds of issues with ARP of late, taking 10s of ms
> for an ARP reply to be propagated, and in the bufferbloated case, often
> failing entirely.

Will have to compare with other kit locally to figure what happens with 
consumer kit...

cheers,

Kim