#1845: athstats: short and long on-chip retry counters switched? ----------------------------------------------------+----------------------- Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Type: defect Status: new | Priority: major Component: madwifi: tools | Version: v0.9.4 Keywords: athstats short long retry counter swap | Patch_attached: 0 ----------------------------------------------------+----------------------- I noticed something interesting with the athstats program, packaged with madwifi drivers toolset. I am running a adhdemo network with nine terminals, all with SMC "SMCWPCIT-G" cards, set at 1 mbps.
My interest is with the short and long on-chip retry counters. As far as I know, the RTS threshold decides if packets will be sent using BASIC or RTS access. Packets less than the threshold are considered SHORT and are sent using BASIC access. Packets greater than or equal to the RTS threshold are considered long and sent via RTS access. If I set the RTS threshold value in iwconfig to "OFF" or "2304" (the maximum length of an 802.11 packets) I have effectively enforced BASIC access on all packets. Therefore, if transmissions fail, the SHORT retry counter should be incremented. However, the athstats program shows an increase in LONG on-chip retries over time. Conversely, if I set the RTS threshold to "1" I see only SHORT on-chip retries. I'm not sure whether I am missing something obvious here, but I haven't had any luck in the #madwifi channel on freenode. Apologies if I submit this defect in error, but I thought it was an important observation. -- Ticket URL: <http://madwifi.org/ticket/1845> madwifi.org <http://madwifi.org/> Multiband Atheros Driver for Wireless Fidelity ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Madwifi-tickets mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/madwifi-tickets
