[ale] Wireless toys?

[Robert L. Harris]

Basically, they have this setup:

10.1.1.254 = default router, in the main building

dlink wireless AP in Youth building with large antanea to link
  to main building

10.1.1.231 = one of the app servers in youth building
10.1.1.31 = youth pastor laptop in youth building

At odd times the laptop can't ping .231 and at some times it can't ping
.254, sometimes it can ping both just fine.  The dlink in the youth 
building is on a 100MB switch, same as the app server.  

For the laptop to get to the 'Net it is wireless to the DLink which
bounces it to the main building where it hits .254 and out.  To hit the
app server it should go wireless to the dlink, to the 100mb switch in
the same building to the app server.

I can't find any error messages or links coming and going, it's just
bizarre.


Thus spake james at sumners.ath.cx (james at sumners.ath.cx):

> It depends on what you mean by "diagnostics". There is Kismet
> (http://www.kismetwireless.net/), Airfart (http://airfart.sf.net/),
> and Wavemon (http://freshmeat.net/projects/wavemon/) [my favorite minus a
> feature]. But, if you just want to figure out signal strengths, I find
> the Gnome wireless monitor applet to be sufficient.
> 
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 10:44:48AM -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >   I've got a very small wireless setup at home for my wife's school work.
> > I'm looking to pick up a CHEAP wireless card for a test laptop I have
> > (may die any day) to play with.  Anyone know if this works with linux:
> > 
> > http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=50284289&pfp=BROWSE
> > 
> > Are there any tools for doing wireless network diagnostics on Linux?  My
> > church has a small wireless in some offices that's giving some very
> > weird behavior and I was going to try and see if I could help trouble
> > shoot it.
> 
> -- 
> 
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