Dear all, I have a couple of questions related to the ath9k drivers.
1) I was wondering if it is possible to purposely deactivate the ACK transmission on a per-attempt basis. Specifically, I would like to simulate packet errors at driver level (i.e. software). I already looked at the methods in mac80211 which discard a packet on the basis of some checks. However, if I understood well, in those cases the ACK frame has already been sent by the NIC. What I would like to do is to say: I received a packet, but since a “magic number” tells me to discard this, I’ll drop it without acknowledging its reception (as it never arrived). This will consequently trigger backoff and retransmissions on the other side ;) Is this possible with ath9k? I cannot find any solution by myself. And the NOACK flag is not an option, since I am testing on rate adaptation techniques, so I need varying speeds and ACKs definitely. 2) Another issue is with RSSI reading. In particular, I am disturbing the channel with an RF generator (not a node). So noise is endless, even during SIFS. This should decrease the SNR level at the receiver in a controlled way (this is what I want). However, I am now interested in collecting the readings of RSSI (or SNR as you prefer) from the driver. This information is available actually, but what happens is that it gets wrong quite soon since noise floor calibration mechanism happen. It is triggered more or less periodically, and in particular it is forced after three lost beacons… This calibrate to the new noise floor level, that’s ok. However, if just after I power off the noise, it never (some tens of seconds is never if I am looking at micro/milliseconds scale) reset the NF. Only after a long while (and I am not able to understand the rationale here) it reset the NF and things get working again as expected. It seems that the bit responsible for this is AR_PHY_AGC_CONTROL_NF (in AR_PHY_AGC_CONTROL). I have actually forced a periodic calibration, but I don’t know if it is the correct way of doing. Moreover, I discovered NF calibration takes nearly 20 ms. Can you confirm this? Is there a way to have a quicker behavior? Thank you so much for any help you could provide me Best wishes to everyone Federico ---------------------------- Federico Tramarin, PhD National Research Council of Italy, CNR-IEIIT via Gradenigo 6/B I-35131 Padova, Italy federico.trama...@ieiit.cnr.it <mailto:federico.trama...@ieiit.cnr.it> Tel: +39 049 827 7645
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