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

Thu Jul 31 21:29:57 UTC 2014

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 <jhugo at meraka.csir.co.za> wrote:
> 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 IEEE802_11_RADIO | grep
> 00:21:a4:35:83:1b
>
> tcpdump: data link type IEEE802_11_RADIO
>
> tcpdump: WARNING: wlan1: no IPv4 address assigned
>
> tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
>
> listening on wlan1, link-type IEEE802_11_RADIO (802.11 plus radiotap
> header), capture size 65535 bytes
>
> 23:24:45.046188 16985251046258410120us tsft short preamble 6.0 Mb/s -82dB
> signal -96dB noise antenna 1 5520 MHz 11a BSSID:02:8c:ca:fe:ca:05
> DA:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff SA:00:21:a4:35:83:1b Beacon (mesh05) [6.0* 9.0 12.0*
> 18.0 24.0* 36.0 48.0 54.0 Mbit] IBSS CH: 104
>
> 23:27:14.360001 16985251046409245942us tsft short preamble 6.0 Mb/s -84dB
> signal -96dB noise antenna 1 5520 MHz 11a BSSID:02:8c:ca:fe:ca:05
> DA:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff SA:00:21:a4:35:83:1b Beacon (mesh05) [6.0* 9.0 12.0*
> 18.0 24.0* 36.0 48.0 54.0 Mbit] IBSS CH: 104
>
> 23:31:40.129098 16985251046677723213us tsft short preamble 6.0 Mb/s 54dBm tx
> power antenna 1 5520 MHz 11a CF +QoS DA:00:21:a4:35:83:1b
> SA:00:21:a4:35:6c:a9 BSSID:02:8c:ca:fe:ca:05
>
> 23:31:55.139074 16985251046692886125us tsft short preamble 6.0 Mb/s 54dBm tx
> power antenna 1 5520 MHz 11a CF +QoS DA:00:21:a4:35:83:1b
> SA:00:21:a4:35:6c:a9 BSSID:02:8c:ca:fe:ca:05
>
> 23:34:37.437525 16985251046856837656us tsft short preamble 6.0 Mb/s -83dB
> signal -96dB noise antenna 1 5520 MHz 11a BSSID:02:8c:ca:fe:ca:05
> DA:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff SA:00:21:a4:35:83:1b Beacon (mesh05) [6.0* 9.0 12.0*
> 18.0 24.0* 36.0 48.0 54.0 Mbit] IBSS CH: 104
>
> 23:35:31.060875 16985251046911007901us tsft short preamble 6.0 Mb/s -83dB
> signal -96dB noise antenna 1 5520 MHz 11a BSSID:02:8c:ca:fe:ca:05
> DA:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff SA:00:21:a4:35:83:1b Beacon (mesh05) [6.0* 9.0 12.0*
> 18.0 24.0* 36.0 48.0 54.0 Mbit] IBSS CH: 104
>
> 23:35:42.921206 16985251046922989068us tsft short preamble 6.0 Mb/s -83dB
> signal -96dB noise antenna 1 5520 MHz 11a BSSID:02:8c:ca:fe:ca:05
> DA:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff SA:00:21:a4:35:83:1b Beacon (mesh05) [6.0* 9.0 12.0*
> 18.0 24.0* 36.0 48.0 54.0 Mbit] IBSS CH: 104
>
>
>
>
>
> mesh-6c9a:~ # athstats -i ath1
>
> 13114 data frames received
>
> 1021 data frames transmit
>
> 75 long on-chip tx retries
>
> 9 tx failed 'cuz too many retries
>
> 54M current transmit rate
>
> 1 watchdog timeouts
>
> 925 tx frames with no ack marked
>
> 21 rx failed 'cuz of bad CRC
>
> 39 periodic calibrations
>
> -0/+0 TDMA slot adjust (usecs, smoothed)
>
> 43 rssi of last ack
>
> 44 avg recv rssi
>
> -96 rx noise floor
>
> 30 tx frames through raw api
>
> 6 spur immunity level
>
> 1 OFDM weak signal detect
>
> 220 listen time
>
> 6 ANI increased spur immunity
>
> 4 ANI disabled OFDM weak signal detect
>
> 4 ANI disabled CCK weak signal threshold
>
> 426767 cumulative OFDM phy error count
>
> 24 ANI forced listen time to zero
>
> 75 missing ACK's
>
> 60 bad FCS
>
> 11323 beacons received
>
> 44 average rssi (beacons only)
>
> Antenna profile:
>
> [0] tx 1012 rx 0
>
> [1] tx 0 rx 13114
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>
>> The RSSI's look fine. So there's likely something else odd going on
>
>>
>
>>
>
>> -a
>
>>
>
>>
>
>> On 31 July 2014 13:00, Johann Hugo <jhugo at meraka.csir.co.za> wrote:
>
>> > 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
>
>> >
>
>> > mesh-6c9a:~ # ifconfig wlan1 list sta
>
>> > ADDR AID CHAN RATE RSSI IDLE TXSEQ RXSEQ CAPS FLAG
>
>> > 00:21:a4:35:6c:a9 0 104 0M 9.5 0 421 60496 I A
>
>> > 00:21:a4:35:6c:96 0 104 54M 21.0 0 98 10496 I AQ WME
>
>> > 00:21:a4:35:83:38 0 104 6M 6.5 0 28 448 I AQ WME
>
>> > 00:21:a4:35:83:1b 0 104 9M 8.0 0 4680 37056 I AQ WME
>
>> > 00:80:48:62:e1:0f 0 104 6M 9.5 0 50 47136 I AQ WME
>
>> >
>
>> >
>
>> > FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT
>
>> >
>
>> > mesh-6c9a:~ # ifconfig wlan1 list sta
>
>> > ADDR AID CHAN RATE RSSI IDLE TXSEQ RXSEQ CAPS FLAG
>
>> > 00:21:a4:35:6c:a9 0 104 0M 13.5 0 142 38384 I A
>
>> > 00:21:a4:35:6c:96 0 104 54M 22.0 0 11 18048 I AQ WME
>
>> > 00:21:a4:35:83:1b 0 104 6M 8.0 60 0 0 I AQ WME
>
>> > 00:80:48:62:e1:0f 0 104 6M 11.5 30 0 41248 A
>
>> > 00:21:a4:35:83:38 0 104 6M 7.0 60 0 0 I AQ WME
>
>> >
>
>> >
>
>> >
>> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>> > FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE
>
>> >
>
>> > mesh-6c9a:~ # uname -a
>
>> > FreeBSD mesh-6c9a 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #1 r229528:231308: Wed
>> > Nov 27
>
>> > 12:21:54 SAST 2013 root at magrathea.meraka.csir.co.za:/scratch/9-stable-
>
>> > old/obj/arm.armeb/var/scratch/9-stable-old/src/sys/SMALL-CAMBRIA arm
>
>> >
>
>> > dmesg
>
>> > ath1: <Atheros 9280> irq 27 at device 2.0 on pci0
>
>> > [ath] enabling AN_TOP2_FIXUP
>
>> > ath1: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0
>
>> >
>
>> > mesh-6c9a:~ # ifconfig -v wlan1
>
>> > wlan1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
>> > 1500
>
>> > ether 00:21:a4:35:6c:a9
>
>> > inet6 fe80::221:a4ff:fe35:6ca9%wlan1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb
>
>> > inet6 fd35:ac5b:b116:10:221:a4ff:fe35:6ca9 prefixlen 64
>
>> > nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>
>> > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11a <adhoc>
>
>> > status: running
>
>> > ssid mesh05 channel 104 (5520 MHz 11a) bssid 02:8c:ca:fe:ca:05
>
>> > regdomain NONE country ZA anywhere ecm authmode OPEN -wps -tsn
>
>> > privacy OFF deftxkey UNDEF powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
>
>> > txpower 27 txpowmax 50.0 -dotd rtsthreshold 2346 fragthreshold 2346
>
>> > bmiss 7
>
>> > 11a ucast NONE mgmt 6 Mb/s mcast 6 Mb/s maxretry 6
>
>> > 11b ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6
>
>> > 11g ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6
>
>> > turboA ucast NONE mgmt 6 Mb/s mcast 6 Mb/s maxretry 6
>
>> > turboG ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6
>
>> > sturbo ucast NONE mgmt 6 Mb/s mcast 6 Mb/s maxretry 6
>
>> > 11na ucast NONE mgmt 12 MCS mcast 12 MCS maxretry 6
>
>> > 11ng ucast NONE mgmt 2 MCS mcast 2 MCS maxretry 6
>
>> > half ucast NONE mgmt 3 Mb/s mcast 3 Mb/s maxretry 6
>
>> > quarter ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6
>
>> > scanvalid 60 -bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
>
>> > roam:11a rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
>
>> > roam:11b rssi 7dBm rate 1 Mb/s
>
>> > roam:11g rssi 7dBm rate 5 Mb/s
>
>> > roam:turboA rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
>
>> > roam:turboG rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
>
>> > roam:sturbo rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
>
>> > roam:11na rssi 7dBm MCS 1
>
>> > roam:11ng rssi 7dBm MCS 1
>
>> > roam:half rssi 7dBm rate 6 Mb/s
>
>> > roam:quarter rssi 7dBm rate 3 Mb/s
>
>> > -pureg protmode CTS -ht -htcompat -ampdu ampdulimit 8k ampdudensity 8
>
>> > -amsdu -shortgi htprotmode RTSCTS -puren smps -rifs wme burst -dwds
>
>> > roaming AUTO bintval 100
>
>> > AC_BE cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 3 txopLimit 0 -acm ack
>
>> > cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 3 txopLimit 0 -acm
>
>> > AC_BK cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 7 txopLimit 0 -acm ack
>
>> > cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 7 txopLimit 0 -acm
>
>> > AC_VI cwmin 3 cwmax 4 aifs 2 txopLimit 94 -acm ack
>
>> > cwmin 3 cwmax 4 aifs 2 txopLimit 94 -acm
>
>> > AC_VO cwmin 2 cwmax 3 aifs 2 txopLimit 47 -acm ack
>
>> > cwmin 2 cwmax 3 aifs 2 txopLimit 47 -acm
>
>> > groups: wlan
>
>> >
>
>> >
>> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>> > FreeBSD 11.0
>
>> >
>
>> > dmesg
>
>> > ath1: <Atheros 9220> irq 27 at device 2.0 on pci0
>
>> > [ath] enabling AN_TOP2_FIXUP
>
>> > ath1: AR9220 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0
>
>> > ath1: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x00c0
>
>> >
>
>> >
>
>> > mesh-6c9a:~ # uname -a
>
>> > FreeBSD mesh-6c9a 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #1 r269182M: Mon Jul
>> > 28
>
>> > 14:51:06 SAST 2014 root at magrathea.meraka.csir.co.za:/var/scratch/11-
>
>> > current/obj/arm.armeb/var/scratch/11-current/src/sys/SMALL-CAMBRIA arm
>
>> >
>
>> > mesh-6c9a:~ # ifconfig -v wlan1
>
>> > wlan1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
>> > 1500
>
>> > ether 00:21:a4:35:6c:a9
>
>> > inet6 fe80::221:a4ff:fe35:6ca9%wlan1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
>
>> > inet6 fd35:ac5b:b116:10:221:a4ff:fe35:6ca9 prefixlen 64
>
>> > groups: wlan
>
>> > ssid mesh05 channel 104 (5520 MHz 11a) bssid 02:8c:ca:fe:ca:05
>
>> > regdomain NONE country ZA anywhere ecm authmode OPEN -wps -tsn
>
>> > privacy OFF deftxkey UNDEF powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
>
>> > txpower 27 txpowmax 50.0 -dotd rtsthreshold 2346 fragthreshold 2346
>
>> > bmiss 7
>
>> > 11a ucast NONE mgmt 6 Mb/s mcast 6 Mb/s maxretry 6
>
>> > 11b ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6
>
>> > 11g ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6
>
>> > turboA ucast NONE mgmt 6 Mb/s mcast 6 Mb/s maxretry 6
>
>> > turboG ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6
>
>> > sturbo ucast NONE mgmt 6 Mb/s mcast 6 Mb/s maxretry 6
>
>> > 11na ucast NONE mgmt 12 MCS mcast 12 MCS maxretry 6
>
>> > 11ng ucast NONE mgmt 2 MCS mcast 2 MCS maxretry 6
>
>> > half ucast NONE mgmt 3 Mb/s mcast 3 Mb/s maxretry 6
>
>> > quarter ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6
>
>> > scanvalid 60 -bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
>
>> > roam:11a rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
>
>> > roam:11b rssi 7dBm rate 1 Mb/s
>
>> > roam:11g rssi 7dBm rate 5 Mb/s
>
>> > roam:turboA rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
>
>> > roam:turboG rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
>
>> > roam:sturbo rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
>
>> > roam:11na rssi 7dBm MCS 1
>
>> > roam:11ng rssi 7dBm MCS 1
>
>> > roam:half rssi 7dBm rate 6 Mb/s
>
>> > roam:quarter rssi 7dBm rate 3 Mb/s
>
>> > -pureg protmode CTS -ht -htcompat -ampdu ampdulimit 8k ampdudensity 8
>
>> > -amsdu -shortgi htprotmode RTSCTS -puren smps -rifs wme burst -dwds
>
>> > roaming AUTO bintval 100
>
>> > AC_BE cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 3 txopLimit 0 -acm ack
>
>> > cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 3 txopLimit 0 -acm
>
>> > AC_BK cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 7 txopLimit 0 -acm ack
>
>> > cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 7 txopLimit 0 -acm
>
>> > AC_VI cwmin 3 cwmax 4 aifs 2 txopLimit 94 -acm ack
>
>> > cwmin 3 cwmax 4 aifs 2 txopLimit 94 -acm
>
>> > AC_VO cwmin 2 cwmax 3 aifs 2 txopLimit 47 -acm ack
>
>> > cwmin 2 cwmax 3 aifs 2 txopLimit 47 -acm
>
>> > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11a <adhoc>
>
>> > status: running
>
>> > nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>
>> >
>
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