[Madwifi-users] Openwrt AP with multiple STA client and strange behavior.

[Mark K. <mar...@ca...>]

I have configured several OpenWrt kamikaze AP's with various versions of
Madwifi from 9.3.3 up to the latest version in openwrt's trunk and I
keep seeing the same problem pop up.    

When I connect more than one STA the network has periods of time where
all of the STA clients appear are unreachable.   If I looking in
wlanconfig I can see all of the STA nodes connected and with excellent
signal strengths.  I am also using wpa_supplicant to connect the STA
nodes with wpa and they will are show as associated with wpa_supplicant.
If I try ping or do anything to these nodes they are unreachable for no
apparent reason.  If I wait for several minutes, sometimes 10 - 15
minutes the STA's will all come back to life and everything will work
like normal.  If I turn one of the units off and back in a short period
of time, I can usually make this phenomenon occur and the rest of the
STA's will not be reachable but anything that's not a STA client is
reachable just fine.  Anyone got any ideas?