wireless device cant go thru wap to nfs/smb server

[yussef]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 03:51:58 -0400 (EDT)
Anthony Volodkin <anthonyv at brainlink.com> wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> You might consider doing some tests to see if you get packet loss to
> the
> NFS/SMB server.  That seems to be the issue.  It would make sense that
> nfs
> would act weird, as nfs doesnt like packet loss :) What is happening
> with
> winamp seems logical as well, in this situation.

I ran some basic pings tests between the access point and the wireless
devices. No packetloss was seen everything was making it through. I will
look into thos more thoroughly as soon as i get a chance.

> 
> If it does indeed turn out to be packet loss, then i'd consider
> investing
> in a real access point and plugging in with a crossover cable into an
> ethernet interface on your router box. I assume that you currently use
> a
> PCMCIA card+adapter.

yes im using a prism 2 based pci card.

> 
> -Anthony
> 
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, yussef wrote:
> 
> > I posted this to -mobile, but im gonna send it here in case anyone
> > might have a better idea. thanks
> >
> > I have a fbsd 4.8 router which also acts as my wireless access
> > point,
> > bridging the wireless interface to the internal nic. on top of that,
> > up
> > until recently, it was my nfs/smb file server as well. Everything
> > was
> > working fine in this setup, so i had to go and change something, and
> > create new problems;)
> >
> > I moved the file serving over to a newer box, that will be dedicated
> > mainly just to NFS and SMB [depending on whether its a windows
> > machine
> > or NIX machine accessing it]. Computers on the network connected
> > over
> > ethernet are able to mount shares and manipulate the data on the
> > shares
> > just fine [copying files back and forth, listening to music, etc].
> > When i try to mount an NFS or SMB share from a device connected
> > wirelessly, im able to do this just fine. However, with NFS im
> > unable to
> > do much with the data. I can browse thru the data just fine [eg,
> > viewing
> > mp3s in xmms]. But as soon as i try to move data from the remote
> > share
> > to the local system, it seems to cause the share to just sorta hang.
> > If
> > i open up a term, and do a simple ls /share it the term becomes
> > unresponsive. even ctrl+c doesnt save me. the only way ive figured
> > out
> > how to return the system to normal is a umount -f /share and this
> > isnt
> > the most elegant or proper solution.
> > With SMB its a similar story. I after its mounted, i can brown the
> > share. If i go to play a song thru xmms, it will play, but it will
> > pause
> > almost every second, tho it will continue playing [so i guess
> > technically its more affective, at this point, than NFS].
> > If i switch my wireless devices to a wired connection, then
> > everything
> > works fine. So it seems pretty clear its not an issue with the
> > wireless
> > devices themselves, but the means of connection.
> > My assumption is because im going thru the router/wap to get to the
> > fileserver, this is somehow mucking up the way NFS/SMB do things.
> > But I
> > have no idea exactly why its doing this, and even more importantly,
> > no
> > idea how to fix this problem, besides making the router/wap the
> > fileserver again, or making the new fileserver the wap [and this
> > might
> > not even work, as i havent tried it yet]. and both of these
> > solutions
> > are far from ideal.
> >
> > thanks for the help.
> > yussef
> >
> > update: since making the initial post to mobile, it's become more
> > clear
> > to me this probably isnt an issue with nfs/smb but something to do
> > with
> > the way bridging works. I've yet to have a look thru the code [and
> > im
> > no programmer], tho i plan to look thru, and see if anything catches
> > my
> > eye. in the mean time, i thought maybe someone else more in the
> > know,
> > might have an idea about a solution.
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