On Wednesday 21 May 2008 11:06:42 Henning Rogge wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for an easy way to get average signal strength and bandwith for > each communication partner in adhoc mode. I know this could be done with > radiotap headers, but this would require to parse all incoming frames, > which can consume lot's of cputime on embedded devices. > > Is there a userspace interface to get the bandwith and average signal > strength of the communication partners in the 802.11 layer ? i don't think that exists yet, but i'm interrested in something like that too, and i guess most people involvend in mesh networking protocols and metrics. however i think "average signal quality" and "thruput" is a bit much to ask for (average over which period of time? weighted average? moving average?) - how about signal/noise of the last packet, physical rate and bytes in/out instead? you can average and calculate bandwidth in userspace. now a question to the mac80211 maintainers: would that be something to be implemented with nl80211? bruno -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
