From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 19:52:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E4C316A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 19:52:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 299F543FB1 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 19:52:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com ([192.168.42.24]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id hB23qh6T014155; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 21:52:43 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3FCC0C7C.8060306@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 21:52:28 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcos Biscaysaqu References: <3FC858F6.2090403@thepacific.net> <3FCBFBDD.6000404@centtech.com> <3FCC0097.2060900@thepacific.net> <3FCC0279.8010200@centtech.com> <3FCC068E.5060205@thepacific.net> In-Reply-To: <3FCC068E.5060205@thepacific.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: re: ath0 lost connection] X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 03:52:47 -0000 Marcos Biscaysaqu wrote: > After this I loss the connection and I have to restart the box: > this is getting worse :( I haven't seen the debug mode kill my box, but anything can happen on -current :) > ath_start: encapsulation failure > ath_rate_ctl: 5M -> 2M (0 ok, 1 err, 1 retr) These ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ are what I am talking about - I think when the signal is low or the connection is lossy (dropping packets or something) it auto drops the rate to a lower number (as it should) - and this is when you are seeing the delays, dropped packets, whatever. If you set the rate to a static number (say, 2M), then possibly it won't attempt any changes, and you can at least know what is causing the packet loss. [..snip..] > ath_rate_ctl: 5M -> 11M (10 ok, 0 err, 0 retr) Now the signal got better, so it bumped it up to 11M.. > ath_start: encapsulation failure I have no idea what that is trying to tell you .. (besides the obvious) > ath_rate_ctl: 2M -> 1M (0 ok, 1 err, 1 retr) If you are down to 1M, I think you may need to check signal strength and such. I'd start with my testing near the AP (in sight of it at least). Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------