From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Aug 16 9:14:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49D9E37B400 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:14:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from electricrain.com (electricrain.com [64.71.143.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC12A43E6A for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:14:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fuzzy@electricrain.com) Received: (qmail 27749 invoked by uid 540); 16 Aug 2002 16:14:48 -0000 Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:14:48 -0700 From: Chris Doherty To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wicontrol signal strength cache Message-ID: <20020816161448.GF22085@zot.electricrain.com> Reply-To: chris-freebsd@randomcamel.net References: <20020816105027.H23070-100000@volatile.chemikals.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020816105027.H23070-100000@volatile.chemikals.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: XEmacs X-Koan: mu. Organization: The Inside Foundation Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 10:54:39AM -0400, Wesley Morgan said: > [morganw@volatile:/usr/local/etc/mrtg$]: wicontrol -C > [1/2]: 00:02:2d:04:df:e4, 192.168.0.252, sig: -82, noise: -95, qual: 13 > [2/2]: 00:05:5d:ed:ce:67, 192.168.0.254, sig: -86, noise: -96, qual: 10 > > The first entry was for my card, which is now not within 1000 miles of > this machine :)... Why is it still holding this information 3 days later? this might be better suited to -questions, but while we're on the subject... I was inspired to look at wicontrol -C, and saw [1/6]: 00:30:65:3a:2f:51, 64.71.143.228, sig: -85, noise: -101, qual: 16 this is a machine in a colo far, far away from me--is wi(4) just making up signal strength values, or should I take that as the signal strength it's getting from the AP? chris ------------------------------- Chris Doherty chris [at] randomcamel.net "I think," said Christopher Robin, "that we ought to eat all our provisions now, so we won't have so much to carry." -- A. A. Milne ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message