ORBIT-USER: Atheros 802.11 metrics

[Kishore Ramachandran]

Hi Tashina:

> RTS threshold
By default, I believe this is set to 2312B - in other words, RTS is not 
used for any data packet since MTU is 1500B. You can set this value to 
something smaller (say 256B) - RTS/CTS will be used only for packets with 
sizes greater than the threshold.

> Size of Preamble to the packets, i.e. long or short,
Atheros cards use the short preamble from the 802.11 standard. This may 
also be configurable via driver modifications.

regards,
Kishore

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Kishore Ramachandran
Graduate Assistant, WINLAB/ECE, Rutgers University.
WWW  : http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/~kishore
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 tashina at eden.rutgers.edu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was hoping someone could tell me what the following values are on orbit,
> for the Atheros nodes running 802.11a. I tried looking it up on the
> Atheros website and couldn't determine it.
>
> RTS threshold
>
> Size of Preamble to the packets, i.e. long or short,
>
> thanks,
> Tashina
>