How is data transmission related to power management?
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 19:01, you wrote: > Sounds like what always happens when crappy power management stuff is > enabled either on the station or the ap. > I would investigate that first. > > Victor Semionov wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I have a wireless card with an Atheros 5212 chipset and I'm experiencing > > the following behavior under FreeBSD 6.1: > > > > TCP connections that consist of small short bursts of one-way > > (transmission) traffic often stall until traffic is received over another > > TCP connection. For example, if I try to load a small web page, located > > on the FreeBSD box, over the wireless link, it doesn't load completely, > > unless I hit return in a concurrent terminal session, or until I request > > some other file hosted on the FreeBSD box, or until I wait 20 seconds or > > so. The signal is not low, the two wireless boxes are in the same room. > > > > Higher-bandwidth connections rarely stall. This makes me think there is > > some kind of low watermark functionality in the hardware/driver that > > doesn't send frames until a certain number of them have been queued for > > transmission, or until a frame has been received. Also, I guess this is > > the reason that the ath module caused the system to freeze at shutdown or > > when the module is unloaded, unless I do an "ifconfig ath0 down" before > > unloading - the unloading code is probably waiting for all queued frames > > to be transmitted, but that never happens. > > > > Sorry for the weak conclusion that is based on assumptions. I'm not > > familiar with the OS/driver internals and don't know how to investigate > > further. Is there a sysctl or other setting that controls this behavior, > > or some other workaround? Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Best regards, > > Victor Semionov > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
