[Nottingham] RasPi - Re: wifi extenders and slow emails

[Martin]

Further thought:

Are you tripping the firewall or some "Deep Packet Inspection" tool on 
the router?...

Good luck!
Martin


On 03/03/2021 16:01, Martin via Nottingham wrote:
> The blizzard of dhcp requests suggests that the router is losing its 
> signal to the outside world and has switched to a 'wait to reconnect' mode.
> 
> Or is the Pi connecting through a WiFi extender?
> 
> 
> ???
> 
> Local interference wiping things out?
> 
> Set up some ping tracing to two points along your route to bisect for 
> any breaks or to see if it really is the Pi losing its side of things?
> 
> 
> Good luck?
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> On 03/03/2021 15:24, J I via Nottingham wrote:
>> Mar  3 11:55:21 pi-name dnsmasq-dhcp[519]: DHCPREQUEST(wlan0) 5.6.7.8 
>> 11:22:33:44:55:66
>> Mar  3 11:55:21 pi-name dnsmasq-dhcp[519]: DHCPACK(wlan0) 5.6.7.8 
>> 11:22:33:44:55:66 client-name
>>
>> All normal stuff and then....FREAK OUT. No idea if it is the Pi, the 
>> client, dnsmasq, something happening at the remote location but that 
>> is all I see in the logs.
>> Until I diddled the power management on WiFi, I used to see various 
>> Broadcom messages and hangs.
>>
>> All very odd.