[Olsr-users] Question about hidden node behavior

[Henning Rogge]

On Friday 14 January 2011 17:23:46 KB Patel wrote:
> The quickest way is to just look at the average Signal Level from the
> iwconfig command.  You should see a line like this:
>                Link Quality=38/70  Signal level=-60 dBm  Noise level=-98
> dBm
> 
> This is the average SNR over the last N packets or some interval (not
> sure what N is).  As such, when you want to see the level between A and
> B, make sure you turn the other nodes off and send some traffic (pings)
> from A to B.
If you have "iw" installed, use "iw dev <dev> station dump" and you will get 
the signal strength (and other useful stuff) sorted by external station.

Henning

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