Don't you see real time active rissi etc when you look into the ap's 
interface listing all the clients?


Travis Johnson wrote:
> What I really want is a way to right-click on an entry in the 
> Registration table and have an option that says "Linktest". It would 
> test sending 100 packets each direction, 10 times. It would then report:
> 
> distance of the link (based on time calculations)
> error rate going from AP to CPE (%)
> error rate going from CPE to AP (%)
> Calculated throughput based on those results
> 
> This simple tool has proven invaluable with our Trango system. Our 1st 
> level techs can login to the AP and do a "linktest" on a customer's 
> radio and know in 10 seconds if there is an RF problem or something 
> else. Having to look at CCQ numbers, packet frames vs. hardware frames, 
> etc. is way too complicated for a 1st level tech.
> 
> Yes, we monitor and graph signal levels, bytes, packets, errors, etc. on 
> every customer we have now... but that simple 10 second test makes life 
> much, much easier.
> 
> Travis
> Microserv
> 
> Butch Evans wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Travis Johnson wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> With a product like Trango, they have a utility called "linktest" 
>>> that shows packet loss after sending ten sets of 100 packets and 
>>> measuring on both sides the loss:
>>>     
>>
>> With Mikrotik, you have stats for the wireless link as well.  You 
>> can double-click an entry under WIRELESS->Registration-Table and you 
>> have a stats tab that will show you tx and rx packets, bytes, 
>> frames, frame bytes, hardware frame bytes and frames.  The 
>> difference between packets and frames is loss on the link.  I agree 
>> that it would be nice to have a calculated value displayed, but the 
>> information is available.  The packet data is available via snmp as 
>> well, though the hardware frame data is not.  You can get (from 
>> snmp) the OID that includes errors (in and out) on the wireless link 
>> as well as other interfaces.  The OID is found with: "/interface 
>> print oid".  Is this what you are wanting?
>>
>>   
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