mrmike
06-13-2006, 08:36 PM
I can't get the war boards in the rootennas to obtain a dhcp from my AP's. The wraps have never had a problem. I have to hardcode the ip and route in to get them going, but would like the DHCP to work. Am I missing something?
lonnie
06-13-2006, 10:34 PM
We'll have to take a look. We have stopped using DHCP (because it was not included in the beginning) so maybe it is time to try it again.
I can't get the war boards in the rootennas to obtain a dhcp from my AP's. The wraps have never had a problem. I have to hardcode the ip and route in to get them going, but would like the DHCP to work. Am I missing something?
ninedd
06-14-2006, 08:46 AM
I've had a similar problem. We're trying to use WARtennas as our CPE's, but want them to work as simply and reliably as our old CPE solution. I've had the DHCP CLient working, but it takes a while to fetch a number, and mostly any changes to the CPE seem to require a reboot or it's won't get a new number.
On the other CPE, we simply set the SSID, and fetchs an IP from upstream, and DHCP's out IP(s) to the customer computer/router. If we wanted to site survey to a number of towers, we'd just simply change the SSID and they fetch, and get, and route, the new private numbers.
On the WARtenna (probably because I'm doing something wrong) our installers need to manually setup a default gateway, manually setup a MASq rule, and since the DHCP client doesn't seem to reliably get a number - they often have to manually setup the IP on the wpci1 card. Installers have a hard time figuring out the reversing switch on the cordless drill sometimes :) and getting them into the TCP parameters is daunting for them.
So, I guess my question is - I thought your perfered network design strongly suggested DHCP? If not, that's OK, but how to you suggest we get WARTennas setup as CPE's? :) In other words, if they were going to come with a 'QuickStart Guide', what steps would it say? Thanx.
lonnie
06-14-2006, 09:54 AM
The preferred method is DHCP, BUT, as I said we started using the new gear before we had DHCP client code in the V3 image so we have all of our stuff converted to use fixed assignments. Since we are an ISP and developers we find we are short of time and when something works (and it is doing fine right now) we tend to just let it alone.