Testing 802.11n

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Wed Nov 23 05:25:43 UTC 2011


On Wed, 23 Nov 2011, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> On 23 November 2011 12:55, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>
>>> You can use athstats to see if it is tx and rxing aggregate frames. Then
>>> you will know it is fully working!
>>
>> Err... yeah.  Well, I did give it a shot, but don't know enough to interpret
>> the results.
>
> I just noticed that it's not included in the athstats API. You can use
> the sysctl debugging call:
>
> sysctl dev.ath.0.txagg=1
>
> If you see the aggregate frame counters go up, it's working.
>
> I'm just updating the athstats program and ath driver to log TX
> aggregate statistics.
> Give me about 10 minutes and then do an update.
>
>> Oh, and the next time you're near there, the usage line shows a "-a" option
>> that doesn't really exist.  Patch attached.
>
> Ok. I'll go and investigate what that option once did and see if I can
> dig up the code.

-b might have problems, too.  Hard to tell; is there a man page or doc 
file somewhere?  I found an online man page, but it's for a much, much 
earlier version with only the -i option.


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