I'm wondering if it is possible to know the packet (or frame) drop rate on a specific WiFi interface, at mac layer so without using any upper layer network measurement tools ?
2 Answers
Try: cat /proc/net/wireless
Example output:
Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets | Missed | WE face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt frag retry misc | beacon | 22 wlp5s1: 0000 49. -61. -256 0 0 0 8673 3336 0
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3I thought maybe the weird formatting was a result of having copied the result from a too-small terminal but no, it actually looks like that– catMay 19, 2017 at 13:16
I think wavemon
is a nice tool to monitor wifi quality. I am not exactly sure if mac retries
, invalid
, missed beacons
are the figures that you are looking for. Give it a try.
What about /sbin/ifconfig
. I think it also shows the number of dropped packets.