Mekabe Ramein wrote:
> Shorewall dump is attached to this email.
> 
> Thanks for any comments/suggestions.
> 
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Mekabe Ramein<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using Shorewall shell on my Linux router. Basically the router
>> has 2 interfaces; ppp0 for wan , br0 for lan.
>> Under br0 bridge interface I have ath0 (wifi atheros) and eth2 interfaces.
>>
>> I have no performance problem on the lan clients which are connected
>> to eth2, but for the clients connected to ath0 wifi interface there is
>> a big performance issue.
>>
>> When there is no traffic on wifi interface, the client can ping the
>> router with 2ms response. But when the client starts any web browsing
>> or any oher traffic, the ping responses from the router go above
>> 1000ms or even 2000ms.
>> Of course data communication from the wifi clients are terribly slow.
>> The client seems to be connected with 54Mbps but it can't go even up to 
>> 100kbps.
>>
>> It first seemed to be a trafffic shaping problem to me , so I moved
>> all tcrules, tcclasses and tcdevices files and restarted without any
>> traffic shaping. But that didn't solve the issue.
>>
>> How can I troubleshoot this ?
>>
>> Below is some information from my linux router. I will send the
>> shorewall dump output in a seperate email.

4: wifi0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
qlen 280
    link/ieee802.11 00:80:48:4f:21:8d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    RX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped overrun mcast
    1143084    8705     0       0       0       0
    TX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped carrier collsns
    7520750    13496    8274    0       0       0

That is a horrible error rate. Looks to me like a hardware or driver issue.

-Tom
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