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

[Punky Tse]

Jerry,

I am not sure, one thing I know is that the voyage kernel is compiled to use in-kernel arp cache. 
There is the kernel option to enlarge the arp cache and to use userland arpd daemon to manage arp 
things.

I am not very good at router level, are you sure the problem is on arp side?  If so, I can built a 
custom kernel for you to test.

Punky

Jerry wrote:
> 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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