[Madwifi-users] Distance control (athctrl -d)

[Michael S. <ms...@cb...>]

Hi,

I noticed that if I use "athctrl -d 9000" to increase the ack timeout on a 
madwifi master, it works as long as I bring the interface up first.

# athctrl -i ath0 -d 9000
Setting distance on interface ath0 to 9000 meters

# cat /proc/sys/dev/ath0/{slottime,acktimeout,ctstimeout}
39
81
81

If I run it on a madwifi station, slottime reverts to the default whenever 
the station reassociates:

# cat /proc/sys/dev/ath0/{slottime,acktimeout,ctstimeout}
9
81
81

I don't know enough to know if this is a problem. I suspect it won't be 
much of one on a point-to-point link, but I thought I'd check anyway. 
Right now the cards are about 50 cm apart, so it's a little hard to tell.

using madwifi-bsd from Thursday:

Jan  5 20:36:04 wi-client kernel: ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413)
Jan  5 20:36:04 wi-client kernel: wlan: 0.8.5.0-BSD (EXPERIMENTAL)
Jan  5 20:36:05 wi-client kernel: ath_rate_sample: 1.2
Jan  5 20:36:05 wi-client kernel: ath_pci: 0.9.5.0-BSD (EXPERIMENTAL)
Jan  5 20:36:05 wi-client kernel: Build date: Jun 24 2005