[Cu-wireless-alert] Re: might have killed peter's node?

Paul A. Kennedy pakenned at uiuc.edu
Fri Jul 18 21:22:07 CDT 2003


On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 08:04:59PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 07:08:27PM -0500, Paul A. Kennedy wrote:
> > Hello wireless people...
> > 
> > I tried the following tcpdump command and peterm seemed to freeze.  I
> > tried to break out of it with no success. Eventually the node kicked me
> > off (or my node gave up on it).
> > 
> > Did I do something gravely wrong?
> 
> You have to use -p. 

Oops.  Ok, that's now in my notebook in red.


> There is a bug in the !@#$^ Prism firmware where it
> does not answer RTS/CTS in promiscuous mode. The way to get connected
> again is to turn off RTS/CTS on your node, ssh in and kill your tcpdump,
> and then turn RTS/CTS back on.

I'm trying this now.  It doesn't seem to be getting anywhere.  I'll send
another message in a while to report my progress or lack thereof.

Paul





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