On Thursday 28 September 2006 17:08, Eduardo Meyer wrote: > Thank you Mr Leffler for this explanation. Honestly I did not know > about those tools. Very interesting, useful and some curious (say, > number of associations denied by wlan acl) information, which I > believe I will be able to produce some logs of it with audit support. > > But I did not find any "signal" information nor any value which looks like > dBm > > # athstats -i ath0 > 4 watchdog timeouts > 549821 tx management frames > 7 tx frames discarded prior to association > 1744404 tx stopped 'cuz no xmit buffer > 15 tx linearized to cluster > 97625 tx failed 'cuz too many retries > 9069518 long on-chip tx retries > 422577 tx frames with no ack marked > 62850632 tx frames with short preamble > 1700110 tx frames with an alternate rate > 24280171 rx failed 'cuz of bad CRC > 1 rx failed 'cuz frame too large > 62560031 rx failed 'cuz of PHY err > 4211566 OFDM timing > 101667 OFDM restart > 58199442 CCK timing > 47356 CCK restart > 31931664 beacons transmitted > 109058 periodic calibrations > rssi of last ack: 24
RSSI is short for 'relative signal strength indicator', you should look here for it. It is usefull to invoke it with argument, e. g. 'athstats -', which gives you repeating lines. Useful for tuning. > 417831 switched default/rx antenna > Antenna profile: > [1] tx 31753038 rx 33886147 > [2] tx 31594701 rx 33711543 > > # wlanstats -i ath0 > 1509703 rx discard 'cuz dup > 335650 rx frame ssid mismatch > 2314 rx deauthentication > 377 rx disassociation > 4959 rx discard 'cuz acl policy > 1068 tx failed for no node > 3 active scans started > 142 nodes timed out inactivity > > Note that I am acting in hostap mode. > This means just you see no rate in output, but otherwise it is just fine. Regards, Milan _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
