Chris Olive wrote:

> I know it's kinda lame to post without more concrete details, but I just 
> thought I would poke around and see if anyone else has experienced their 
> wireless interface suddenly freezing.

I posted several times about a similar problem with the Netgate kit in a 
net4501.  Check the archives

I finally decided the problem was the Prism chip set is simple-minded 
and sorta like a WinModem.  This means that much of the work (especially 
in HostAP mode) is done in the interrupt handler, with interrupts disabled.

Eventually the non-kernel processes get starved for CPU time and things 
get weird.

My fix was to set up traffic shaping, and insert a 50ms pause between 
packets.  That seems ugly to me, but also seems to work.

I suspect a net4801 has enough horsepower that it wouldn't have the problem.

So, try the traffic shaping.

          -crl
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