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bruce · 09-21-2016

I found that upgrading the firmware of a WAP4410N from 2.0.7.4-K9 to 2.0.7.8 prevents many ARP packets for devices attached to the WAP from beingdelivered, and hence replied to, causing occasional network hangs for wireless devices. I have confirmed ...

bruce · 03-22-2017

Uh, I wonder if the IPMI (sharing an ethernet port) was seen as a VPN ARP entry and that somehow got the WAP confused.

bruce · 03-22-2017

Uh, I never looked at those because I was using only a single SSID. They seem like they control VPNs and cross-SSID visibility.

bruce · 03-22-2017

What was happening is that the IPMI card was repeatedly asking for its own IP address (even though it had a fixed IP address), and no one was replying. It feels like at some point the WAP decided to stop listening to ARP entries, and connections to ...

bruce · 03-22-2017

I ended up removing an IPMI card that was sharing a NIC and that fixed the problem. The firmware version turned out to be a non-issue.

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WAP4410N firmware upgrade from 2.0.7.4-K9 to 2.0.7.8 breaks ARP

Uh, I wonder if the IPMI

Uh, I never looked at those

What was happening is that

I ended up removing anIPMI