ATHSTATS(8)

NAME
athstats - print statistical data about madwifi interfaces

DESCRIPTION
Provide statistics about a madwifi interface. Without any arguments, athstats will print a summary of statistical elements for the specified interface. If an additional argument is given as an integer, athstats will print progressive statistical data at an interval equal to the specified integer in seconds.

Statistical elements of the summary report include packets sent/received, tx/rx errors, calibration information and an antenna profile.

The progressive report details packet input/output as well as altrate, short, long, xretry, crcerr, crypt, phyerror packet counts. rssi and rate info is also displayed.

The statistical data is derived from device ioctls and /proc/net/dev.

OPTIONS

-i <interface>
    The madwifi interface to apply the settings to. If no interface is specified, it will default to ath0.

<integer>
    Define the interval between realtime statistical feedback in seconds.

EXAMPLES

athstats -i ath1
    Print summary of statistics for madwifi interface ath1.

athstats
    Print summary of statistics for the default madwifi interface ath0.

athstats -i ath1 5
    Print progessive statistical report every 5 seconds.

SEE ALSO
80211stats(8)

AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Kel Modderman <kelrin@tpg.com.au>.