2011/11/22 Qasim Javed <qas...@gmail.com>:
> Why don't you log packets using tshark/tcpdump on a monitor mode interface
> and then do your analysis on the log?
>
> If you don't log the packets then the only way is to modify the mac80211
> source code to not count the beacons which should be pretty straightforward
> to do.
>
> -Qasim
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Mariana Gambande <mlgamba...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello to all,
>> I've realized the rx_fragments and rx_bytes continually increase because
>> of the beacons (I thought the beacons were not recorded if the iface is not
>> in monitor mode). I would like to know how to stop registering the beacons
>> in this situation. I've tried changing the value of AR5K_RX_FILTER_BEACON
>> but it stops detecting other stations instead of just not registering the
>> beacons.
>> Thanks in advance!
>> Mariana
>>
>> 2011/11/14 Mariana Gambande <mlgamba...@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Hi to all!
>>> I have an issue regarding the debugfs statistics. I'm working with ad-hoc
>>> mode and monitoring statistics in
>>> /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/stations/. I have observed that having no
>>> activity between two stations connected in ad-hoc mode (no one is sending
>>> anything), the variables rx_fragments and rx_bytes continually increase.
>>> This can be seen with the command 'iw $iface station dump' also.
>>> I would expect that variables
>>> in  /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/statistics could get increase because
>>> of some "noise" (other AP around, etc) but not in the per station
>>> statistics. This happens with both connected stations and no one
>>> shown tx_bytes/tx_packets.
>>> I'm working with compat-wireless-2.6.35-1.
>>> Are these really per station statistics?
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>> Mariana
>>>
>>

Since you know the beacon interval and the time spent you can filter
out beacons from you measurements easily.



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