From: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@ritirata.org>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] real-time link monitor (was: updated README)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 10:58:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100504085811.GA10452@ritirata.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201005040959.43700.lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
On mar, mag 04, 2010 at 09:59:43 +0800, Marek Lindner wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > I *DO* have it running on a pair of Meraki minis with villagetelco
> > software. Seems to work *VERY* well.
>
> glad to hear that !
>
>
> > I always seem to be looking for a real-time quality monitor so I can
> > adjust antennas, check range, watch radios change by themselves, etc.
> > i.e.- A real-time chart recorder widget. Thus my suggestion.
>
> You are not the first one with such a feature request but let me point out that
> batman is not the right tool for the job. If you want to finetune antennas
> batman is way too slow and imprecise, since all it does is measuring packet
> loss within a certain time frame. Deriving antenna directions from that is
> more magic than real sience.
>
> I'd rather suggest a tool like "horst" (Highly Optimized Radio Scanning Tool -
> http://br1.einfach.org/tech/horst/) which hooks into your wifi driver to
> retrieve real-time data about the link quality to your neighbors. Of course,
> such a tool is highly dependend on the wifi driver and probably does not
> support all the drivers in the world but I'm sure it can be extended.
Hi, thank you very much for your suggestion!
It is very usefull here! :)
>
> Regards,
> Marek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-04 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-03 1:33 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] updated README Marek Lindner
2010-05-03 7:43 ` Sven Eckelmann
2010-05-03 12:19 ` Marek Lindner
2010-05-03 14:37 ` Sven Eckelmann
2010-05-03 9:26 ` RHS Linux User
2010-05-03 12:14 ` Marek Lindner
2010-05-03 20:56 ` RHS Linux User
2010-05-04 1:59 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] real-time link monitor (was: updated README) Marek Lindner
2010-05-04 8:58 ` Antonio Quartulli [this message]
2010-05-03 16:55 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] updated README Andrew Lunn
2010-05-04 1:49 ` Marek Lindner
2010-05-04 5:14 ` Andrew Lunn
2010-05-04 7:43 ` Marek Lindner
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