[Voyage-linux] My experience with voyage (real-world)

[Jerry]

Hello!

I recently put Voyage on a wrap board which I put in use as a router (feed) for a wireless network.  The wireless interface (2511mp) was as a client, using an AP1000 as the broadcast.  The device was doing routing not nat, and the performance (speed/bandwidth) was good, and the stability was good too.

The problems I had was with arp and/or dhcpd.  I know that it comes with 'dnsmask' installed, but in my testing, a client behind a CB3 wouldnt get an IP using dnsmask, so I used a statically compiled dhcpd binary which I had been using in several other places (in wisp-dist) with great success.  Well, it worked, at first... after a day or two dhcpd would crash, and the only way to make things work "correctly" was to restart the machine, this was a temprorary solution, as by the next day (or less) the support calls would return.

I believe the problem is arp, in that 'arp-a' would show the CB3 mac and not the device behind it (im convinced it had something to do with this).  The CB3s were mostly default settings (I didnt give any special addresses to them, just left them at default IP address, 192.168.1.1).  If I gave a local (192.168.1.13) secondary address to the wrap,  I could NOT ping 192.168.1.1 at all.  In all my other places 192.168.1.1 would respond, and after replacing the wrap with a wisp-dist device, it would too.

I was really excited about voyage, as it has the features I have been wanting in a device, and is tuned to the wrap boards.  But alas I cannot use it if it acts this way.  Im really not sure what the problem is directly, but I am convinced it has something to do with arp (or lack thereof).  

Has anyone else had issues like this?   I could accept the issues better if this was a big pop, but there was maybe 10 customers at the most, and it couldnt handle that.  :(

any ideas?

Thanks

Jerryf     

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