Ath - clients with weak signals not working after upgrade to FreeBSD 11.0

Hi After an upgrade from FreeBSD 9.0 to 11.0 I'm losing comms to some of the wifi clients that worked when I was using FreeBSD 9.0 (long distance links in mesh) On CURRENT the devices are still showing with list sta, but the idle counter keeps growing + no comms to them. FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE m

Re: Ath - clients with weak signals not working after upgrade to FreeBSD 11.0

I think the idle counter there is the receive idle counter. Ie, it's not hearing frames from them. See if you can figure out what frames it isn't hearing. The RSSI's look fine. So there's likely something else odd going on -a On 31 July 2014 13:00, Johann Hugo wrote: > Hi > > After an upgrad

Re: Ath - clients with weak signals not working after upgrade to FreeBSD 11.0

On Thursday 31 July 2014 13:43:34 Adrian Chadd wrote: > I think the idle counter there is the receive idle counter. Ie, it's > not hearing frames from them. > > See if you can figure out what frames it isn't hearing. tcpdump for the last couple of minutes. mesh-6c9a:~ # tcpdump -i wlan1 -n -e -y

Re: Ath - clients with weak signals not working after upgrade to FreeBSD 11.0

Hi, Yeah, run athstats 1 on both to see what kind of difference(s) there are in transmit/receive statistics. I wonder if it's changes in the ANI code. -a On 31 July 2014 14:14, Johann Hugo wrote: > On Thursday 31 July 2014 13:43:34 Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> I think the idle counter there is t

Re: Ath - clients with weak signals not working after upgrade to FreeBSD 11.0

On Thursday 31 July 2014 14:29:55 Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi, > > Yeah, run athstats 1 on both to see what kind of difference(s) there > are in transmit/receive statistics. > > I wonder if it's changes in the ANI code. Just booted with FreeBSD 9.0 again mesh-6c9a:~ # ifconfig wlan1 list sta ADDR

Re: Ath - clients with weak signals not working after upgrade to FreeBSD 11.0

On Thursday 31 July 2014 14:29:55 Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi, > > Yeah, run athstats 1 on both to see what kind of difference(s) there > are in transmit/receive statistics. > > I wonder if it's changes in the ANI code. Forgot to mention that I only see the problem on cards with an Atheros 9220 ch

Re: Ath - clients with weak signals not working after upgrade to FreeBSD 11.0

On 31 July 2014 14:56, Johann Hugo wrote: > On Thursday 31 July 2014 14:29:55 Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Yeah, run athstats 1 on both to see what kind of difference(s) there > >> are in transmit/receive statistics. > >> > >> I wonder if it's changes in the ANI code. > > > > Forgot to m