Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:35:40 +1100 From: paul van den bergen <pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wireless monitoring of APs??? Message-ID: <200401061535.40356.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20040106041326.GB2084@saboteur.dek.spc.org> References: <200312151656.44591.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> <200401061216.47187.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> <20040106041326.GB2084@saboteur.dek.spc.org>
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 03:13 pm, you wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:16:47PM +1100, paul van den bergen wrote: > > How about snmp information display programs for FreeBSD? > > I'm working on something like this. What exactly do you want to measure > or monitor? Ah! yes... see, now there is the rub ;-) I suppose it depends on your purpose. as a fuilly featured (IP) network tool you'd probably want some low level stats on the traffic. for a AP/wireless tool - well, what kismet or bsdairtools gives you. It would also depend on what the AP can gie you. If you can do accumulated statistics like moving averages of interpacket (frame?) arrival times, error rate, queue or buffer size, (being an indication of delay/saturation?), retransmittion delay, packet size... per traffic stream ;-0 OK ok, if one could just see what other devices were out there it would be a good start I suppose. -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au IM:bulwynkl2002 "And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made." Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824
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