802.11 RSSI value displayed from ifconfig(8)

[Milan Obuch]

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