On 03/10/2010 05:33 PM, Derek Smithies wrote:
> Hi,
>   Acks are generated by hardware. One of the hardware registers might delay 
> the acks - you could randomly try different registers and see what 
> happens.

Randomly poke registers? I'm going over the reg.h file to see what I can
actually play with.

> however, the testbed you describe will give you erroneous results, even 
> if you manage to delay the ack packets.
> 
> Outdoor nodes (the only place to do a long distance test) are subject to 
> receiving many many many millions of packets from nodes outside of your 
> network. Packets from these foreign nodes will do all sorts of things to 
> your driver, and new failure modes will crop up.
>     I do not see how you can replicate outdoor testing (on a testbench).
> 

The location where this will eventually wind up doesn't have any
neighbors. You'd be lucky to tune in an AM radio station at night, much
less an 802.11 packet.

Gus
_______________________________________________
ath5k-devel mailing list
ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org
https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel

Reply via email to