From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Aug 1 8:59:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mbunix.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6515D37B891 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 08:59:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA02001 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 11:59:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA17996 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 11:57:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id FYMF2Y00.HTM for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 11:59:22 -0400 Message-ID: <3986F497.AAF624C5@mitre.org> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 12:02:31 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Getting available bandwidth on variable bandwidth interfaces Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, Does anybody know a method for retrieving the current available bandwidth from a wireless card? Is this information kept on the card (Lucent Wavelan Turbo IEEE) somewhere, or do you have to use some sort of algorithm for calculating a heuristic? Has anyone done this before? Thanks _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre corperation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message