Re: [WISPA] MT tools

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:32:28 -0800

What I really want is a way to right-click on an entry in the Registration table and have an option that says "Linktest". It would test sending 100 packets each direction, 10 times. It would then report:

distance of the link (based on time calculations)
error rate going from AP to CPE (%)
error rate going from CPE to AP (%)
Calculated throughput based on those results

This simple tool has proven invaluable with our Trango system. Our 1st level techs can login to the AP and do a "linktest" on a customer's radio and know in 10 seconds if there is an RF problem or something else. Having to look at CCQ numbers, packet frames vs. hardware frames, etc. is way too complicated for a 1st level tech.

Yes, we monitor and graph signal levels, bytes, packets, errors, etc. on every customer we have now... but that simple 10 second test makes life much, much easier.

Travis
Microserv

Butch Evans wrote: 
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Travis Johnson wrote:

  
With a product like Trango, they have a utility called "linktest" 
that shows packet loss after sending ten sets of 100 packets and 
measuring on both sides the loss:
    

With Mikrotik, you have stats for the wireless link as well.  You 
can double-click an entry under WIRELESS->Registration-Table and you 
have a stats tab that will show you tx and rx packets, bytes, 
frames, frame bytes, hardware frame bytes and frames.  The 
difference between packets and frames is loss on the link.  I agree 
that it would be nice to have a calculated value displayed, but the 
information is available.  The packet data is available via snmp as 
well, though the hardware frame data is not.  You can get (from 
snmp) the OID that includes errors (in and out) on the wireless link 
as well as other interfaces.  The OID is found with: "/interface 
print oid".  Is this what you are wanting?

  

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