Tom Murphy wrote:

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> Alexander Hall wrote:

>

>> I'll second this; from a gw of mine:

>>

>> $ sudo crontab -l | grep ral0

>> # Down and up ral0 on failure

>> *       *       *       *       *       ifconfig ral0 | grep -q

>> OACTIVE &>>

>> /Alexander

>

> Hi Alexander,

>

>   What does the 'OACTIVE' mean? I put that crontab entry in and about 5

> times already

> it came up with OACTIVE in the ifconfig output and it downed the

> interface and brought it back up.

> So far the machine has stayed up and hasn't locked up solid yet. Is

> downing the interface and bringing

> it back up when it's 'OACTIVE' help prevent the box from locking up?

No idea really. I noticed sometimes that the ral0 interface stopped

working and the down+up dance made it work again. Later I noticed that

the OACTIVE flag was set when the card locked up. For me, the box itself

never locked up, but rather the AP just got inaccesible.
I skimmed through the code but to no avail.
/Alexander