i have done a lot of tests with the non VINT V24. WPA, WPA2 both with TKIP and AES. No wireless clients at all, both routers only connected via ethernet to a laptop on each side. As i wrote, nost of the time WDS will not work, sometimes it will. Until now, the VINT-Version runs 3 days without any problem at all. May be it depends on the hardware used, i tested it on 2 WRT54GL V1.1.
Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 198 Location: Parma - Italy
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:21 Post subject:
erj2 wrote:
i have done a lot of tests with the non VINT V24. WPA, WPA2 both with TKIP and AES. No wireless clients at all, both routers only connected via ethernet to a laptop on each side. As i wrote, nost of the time WDS will not work, sometimes it will. Until now, the VINT-Version runs 3 days without any problem at all. May be it depends on the hardware used, i tested it on 2 WRT54GL V1.1.
These are exactety yje same routers I'm using.
The firmware is different, I have V24 final mini.
Do you use any exotic characters in the essid or password?
Another random thought. I always had the impression that some clients were able to crash the nas process, which is used for wpa authentication. Do you have clients trying to connect when rebooting the routers?
no
Alberto wrote:
Do you use any exotic characters in the essid or password?
yes but I don't think this is a problem.. I am using same SSID and WPA key on v23SP2 without any problem.
I also posted the following in the ticket, before I noticed this post:
I saw this issue as well. My workaround was to set WDS watchdog on all routers, 60 seconds for the "remote" WDS routers and something higher, at least 90 seconds for the "primary" gateway router. While it's not perfect, they reboot, with some time offset, until eventually solid connectivity is established. As was stated earlier, once a proper connection is made, it is very stable.
Upgraded to 24sp1(10011) yesterday and this issue seems to be worse. I could not get WDS to work until I disabled wireless security. Once connected I re-enabled it and it continued to work but if I reboot either AP they will not connect until I disable encryption.
Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Posts: 286 Location: germany/saxony/le
Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 18:44 Post subject:
erj2 wrote:
i have done a lot of tests with the non VINT V24. WPA, WPA2 both with TKIP and AES. No wireless clients at all, both routers only connected via ethernet to a laptop on each side. As i wrote, nost of the time WDS will not work, sometimes it will. Until now, the VINT-Version runs 3 days without any problem at all. May be it depends on the hardware used, i tested it on 2 WRT54GL V1.1.
I thought WPA2 dosn't work under wds?
"Note
WDS is only available in AP mode. Also Wireless encryption WPA2 and Wireless network mode B-Only are not supported under WDS."