Re: [ath9k-devel] Capture A-MPDUs

2014-10-24 Thread Tsaixiong
Astrit Zhushi cs.ucl.ac.uk> writes: > > Hi, > I need to capture aggregate MPDUs between an AP and a client (both running iwlwifi driver). I have a monitoring node running Atheros AR9300 (MiniPCIe) card with a monitoring interface setup. The problem is that aggregated data frames (A-MPDUs) bei

Re: [ath9k-devel] Capture A-MPDUs

2014-10-24 Thread Kamran Nishat
we saw this but according to some list of iwlwifi driver. AMPDUs are off. Are u sure, u got BlockAcks from iwlwifi On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Tsaixiong wrote: > Astrit Zhushi cs.ucl.ac.uk> writes: > > > > > Hi, > > I need to capture aggregate MPDUs between an AP and a client (both > runni

Re: [ath9k-devel] Capture A-MPDUs

2014-10-24 Thread Kamran Nishat
One more thing did u tried putting your sniffing (monitoring) PC close to the iwlwifi based device? On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Kamran Nishat wrote: > we saw this but according to some list of iwlwifi driver. AMPDUs are off. > Are u sure, u got BlockAcks from iwlwifi > > On Fri, Oct 24, 201

Re: [ath9k-devel] Capture A-MPDUs

2014-10-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, The Atheros NICs will do A-MPDU de-encpasulation in hardware. Are you not seeing any RX data frames (ie, individual MPDUs) or are you seeing the de-encapsulated ones and not the raw A-MPDU itself? -adrian On 6 August 2013 02:00, Astrit Zhushi wrote: > Hi, > > I need to capture aggregate

[ath9k-devel] Questions regarding ath9k and new EN 300 328 regulation

2014-10-24 Thread Adrien Decostre
Dear all, I am looking for information about the compliancy of the ath9k driver to the EN 300 328 ETSI regulation. Would someone know if ath9k has already been tested for this regulation? Is it needed to enable any specific flag in ath9k to guarantee compliancy to the adaptivity tests describe

[ath9k-devel] strange MPDU loss pattern

2014-10-24 Thread Ali Abedi
Hello, We study the effects of 802.11n frame aggregation on throughput. We noticed a strange pattern in the MPDU loss within an aggregated frame. It seems that the second half of the MPDUs (those with higher sequence numbers) in an aggregated frame are more likely to be lost. Is this a known fa

Re: [ath9k-devel] strange MPDU loss pattern

2014-10-24 Thread Kamran Nishat
How did u determine that? only by looking at the Bitmaps in BlockAcks? On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Ali Abedi wrote: > Hello, > > We study the effects of 802.11n frame aggregation on throughput. We > noticed a > strange pattern in the MPDU loss within an aggregated frame. It seems > that the

Re: [ath9k-devel] strange MPDU loss pattern

2014-10-24 Thread Ali Abedi
Hi, Yes we look at the BA bitmap and also too we have printks in the driver that tells us what happened to the MPDUs in an aggregated frame. Thanks, Ali On 24/10/2014 12:13 PM, Kamran Nishat wrote: How did u determine that? only by looking at the Bitmaps in BlockAcks? On Fri, Oct 24, 2014

[ath9k-devel] ath9k_hw_addrxbuf_edma

2014-10-24 Thread Astrit Zhushi
Hi, I was wondering if someone can help me understand receiver buffer management on the ath9k driver. While running TCP experiments using an AP and a wireless node (both running AR9380 mini PCI-e cards, with PCI-e adapter) I noticed that TCP was invoking fast retransmit. At the transmitter, the

Re: [ath9k-devel] 3.17 regression, ath9k: Summarize hw state per channel context

2014-10-24 Thread Ben Greear
Has anyone had time to investigate this? Do I need to write up some scripts to reproduce this so you can verify it yourself? Thanks, Ben On 10/16/2014 03:41 PM, Ben Greear wrote: > On 10/04/2014 07:30 AM, Ben Greear wrote: >> >> >> On 10/04/2014 12:46 AM, Sujith Manoharan wrote: >>> Ben Greear

Re: [ath9k-devel] strange MPDU loss pattern

2014-10-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
It's not completely unsurprising - the initial channel estimate and such is done at the beginning of each packet and stays constant. So if there's some varying channel conditions that change that during the duration of a packet, the tail end is going to end up having less SNR and may end up getting

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k_hw_addrxbuf_edma

2014-10-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, The driver handles some corner case from the hardware where the NIC indicates a frame is completed but the contents of the frame aren't what it expects. Ie, the atheros vendor ID isn't in there. Try printing out the contents of the RX descriptor when that happens and take a look. It may just

Re: [ath9k-devel] strange MPDU loss pattern

2014-10-24 Thread Kamran Nishat
But for this channel conditions should be changing at the scale of 100 micro secs consistently. On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > It's not completely unsurprising - the initial channel estimate and > such is done at the beginning of each packet and stays constant. So if > th

Re: [ath9k-devel] strange MPDU loss pattern

2014-10-24 Thread Ali Abedi
We don't use a rate adaptation at this moment (i.e., fixed rate) and the setup is stationary. So we expect to see relatively stable channel conditions. Even if the channel conditions change during the aggregated frame. The first half of the MPDUs have the same chance of experiencing worse chann

Re: [ath9k-devel] strange MPDU loss pattern

2014-10-24 Thread Krishna Chaitanya
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Kamran Nishat wrote: > > But for this channel conditions should be changing at the scale of 100 > micro secs consistently. > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > It's not completely unsurprising - the initial channel estimate and > > such i