Channel interference scan and manual selection

[Adrian Chadd]

On 3 December 2013 19:03, Jim Thompson <jim at netgate.com> wrote:
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> On Dec 3, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> Now, ideally it'd actually check the channel for interference and
>> channel busy status, and use _that_ metric.
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> Ideally, it would attempt to get co-channel with other APs on the same channel.
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> Especially in 2.4GHz (or any of the 5GHz bands).
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> Because you would *much* rather share the air (via collision avoidance) than raise the noise floor for someone (everyone) else.
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> And, given that everyone has a DC receiver these days, there are NO “non-overlapping channels”.

Right. Hence, interference and channel busy. The Atheros NIC channel
busy tells you % busy with signal in the air _AND_ % busy receiving
frames. So you can get an idea of what's actually going on.

The basics are in the Atheros HAL. We just need a nice way to wrap it
up and hand off channel survey results to the net80211 layer so it can
make these decisions.




-adrian