hostAP stat parameter

Jose Araujo jlaraujo at dti.pga.pt
Wed Apr 9 06:47:15 EDT 2003


Hi,

I will comment those stats that i know inline, ok.

Johanna Gülly wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I´m a new user and have to argue with the host AP driver for university.
> Could anyone be so kind and explain the individual parameters of the 
> following stat file?!?
> I wrote my assumed explanation in // comments !!
>
>
> STA=00:02:2d:61:2e:57  // wlan card with hardwareaddress
> users=0  // ?
> aid=1  // ?
> flags=0x0003 AUTH ASSOC  // ?
> capability=0x01   // ?
> listen_interval=1 // ?
> supported_rates=1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps //  supported rates :)
> jiffies=688870  // ??
> last_auth=520703  // ?? 

maybe seconds since last auth

> last_assoc=520704  // ?? 

maybe seconds since last association

> last_rx=688854  // last received, indicated in bytes ?

seconds since last rx

> last_tx=675072    // last transmitted, indicated in ? 

seconds since last tx

> rx_packets=401    // received packets
> tx_packets=81    /packete
> rx_bytes=60073    // received bytes -  current transmission ? 

total bytes received

> tx_bytes=13451    // transmitted bytes -  current transmission? 

total bytes sent

> buffer_count=0    // ??
> last_rx: silence=0 signal=45 rate=110 flow=0 // ??
> tx_rate=110 // ?? 

current tx rate (110(11Mbps) 55(5.5Mbps) 20(2Mbps) 10(1Mbps))

> tx[1M]=0  // ??
> tx[2M]=0  // ??
> tx[5.5M]=0  // ??
> tx[11M]=81        /11Mbps 

packets transmitted per rate

> rx[1M]=0  // ??
> rx[2M]=54        /2Mbps
> rx[5.5M]=0  // ??
> rx[11M]=375        /11Mbps 

packets received per rate

> txexc=0  // ??
>
>
> thank you very much for an immediate answer
> Johanna

Hope it helps

Jose Araujo




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