Just last night mine froze up for the first time, but then I was really
trying to hammer it by downloading all 3 iso's of Fedora at the same time...
:) They started coming in fast but eventually all timed out and then could
not get to anything quickly. It acted like it was a 9600 baud modem, lol. A
reboot returned it to normal speed. Care to share a snip of your xml file
for that shaper rule Chad? :)

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chad R. Larson [mailto:clarson at eldocomp dot com] 
> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 6:38 PM
> To: Chris Olive
> Cc: M0n0Wall
> Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] m0n0wall v1.0, Soekris net4511 
> wireless freezing?
> 
> 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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