Subject: Re: ath(4) packet loss problem
To: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
From: Andreas Wrede <andreas@planix.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/12/2007 15:09:39
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On Jul 11, 2007, at 21:20 , David Young wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 08:12:53PM -0400, Andreas Wrede wrote:
>> Yes, they are the opposite ends of the workbench, about 4 feet apart.
>> That will change once they get deployed..
>
> Move them across the room from each other.  See if that helps.

AP and 4801 are now about 25' apart. It does help but does not solve  
the problem:

----10.99.254.240 PING Statistics----
4126 packets transmitted, 3919 packets received, 5.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.748/1.224/219.692/3.764 ms

# ifconfig -v ath0 | grep -v ': 0$'
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         ssid Planix -frag nwkey 65536:"", 
0x7564de6feb7828815b0eb100a49f94c5,0x25954c40267e2e04334bbb790a5a21b0,""
         powersave off
         bssid 00:19:e3:33:c7:1b chan 1
         address: 00:02:6f:20:f5:4a
         media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (OFDM24 mode 11g)
         status: active
         input: 21022 packets, 2023682 bytes, 4483 multicasts, 2080  
errors
         output: 16621 packets, 1635518 bytes, 5 multicasts
         rx discard 'cuz dup: 293
         rx discard 'cuz mcast echo: 6
         rx beacon frames: 43455
         rx element unknown: 86914
         rx frame chan mismatch: 1
         rx w/ incorrect keyid: 7
         rx seq# violation (TKIP): 3
         tx failed 'cuz no defkey: 5
         active scans started: 1
         inet 10.99.254.240 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 10.99.255.255
         inet6 fe80::202:6fff:fe20:f54a%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4

# netstat -I ath0
Name  Mtu   Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts  
Oerrs Colls
ath0  1500  <Link>        00:02:6f:20:f5:4a    21081  2081     
16662     0     0
ath0  1500  fe80::/64     fe80::202:6fff:fe    21081  2081     
16662     0     0
ath0  1500  10.99/16      10.99.254.240        21081  2081     
16662     0     0


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