[ILUG] Acturate ping times!

Treanor, Ciaran ciaran at xelector.com
Wed Nov 7 10:55:39 GMT 2001


> standard way for location stuff is using the rx power to tell 
> how close

If power levels are what you're after then you could take a look
at the source for iwconfig (part of wireless tools).

It spits out info like:

[root at deckard /root]# iwconfig
lo       no wireless extensions.
eth0     no wireless extensions.
eth0:1   no wireless extensions.
eth1     no wireless extensions.
eth2     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"Impreza"  Nickname:"deckard"
         Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.422GHz  Cell: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
         Bit Rate=11Mb/s  Tx-Power=15 dBm  Sensitivity:1/3
         RTS thr:off  Fragment thr:off
         Encryption key: XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX
         Power Management: off
         Link Quality: X  Signal level: X Noise level: X
         Rx invalid nwid: X  invalid crypt:X  invalid misc: X

Ciaran




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