[Voyage-linux] Voyage WRAP inexplicable rebooting

[Edwin Whitelaw]

All,

I've got a substantial number of WRAP boards (most at BIOS 1.11) running 
Voyage 0.2 (k2.6.15-486-voyage, madwifi-ng svn 1527), all at the latest 
updates

---/etc/apt/sources.list-------
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ sarge main
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main
deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main
deb http://www.voyage.hk/dists/0.2 ./
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Some are configured with SR5 or CM9 for PtP 5GHz backhaul plus a Senao 
2511 for 2.4GH AP and some with just two CM9s as simple PtP backhaul to 
remote radios. 

For reasons I have not yet determined, some of these boards will 
spontaneously reboot sometimes more than once per day.  I have all 
syslog pointed to a central log server but have not seen anything

Some are new systems with few or no users and one is quite heavily 
loaded.  One WRAP has the old brown capacitors (4 of them though) but 
has two low power consuming CM9s as PtP backhaul links and an 18v power 
supply.  Others are apparently identical, both in configuration and 
function within the network, and have run for weeks or even months w/o 
problems.

I have been unable to find a common thread to the rebooting units and am 
looking for contact with someone who is having/has had a similar 
problem.  Most units are connected to UPSs or have reliable power so 
don't think that's the issue.  The 5GHz/2.4GHz units typically have 
virtual IPs on the wlan0 interface and run dhcpd, snmpd, quagga/ospf but 
other core PtP units that reboot run none of that and others that do run 
all the same stuff don't reboot.

There is a lot of information to look at but so far I have been unable 
to correlate the rebooting to network function, software, radio, etc.

I realize this is light on tech specs but thought to first find someone 
who's interested in discussing this before including all the minutiae.  :-)

Thanks,

Edwin


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Edwin Whitelaw, P.E.
New River Valley Unwired, LLC
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540-239-0318