Hi all.
I'm trying to find out what is the difference between wifi0 and ath0 (atheros wifi card) in terms of packet counters shown in proc/net/dev pseudofile.
The fact is that wifi0 and ath0 packet counters are different. I've read that wifi0 refers to the physical device and ath0 refers to virtual device over wifi0, so, as far as I know, packets counters in both devices should be the same, isn't it?
Another annoying question for me is that ath0 doesn't show any erroneous packets, while wifi0 does.
This is the output givwen by proc/net/dev:
Quote:
carlos@PC-083:~$ cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
lo: 668536 6931 0 0 0 0 0 0 668536 6931 0 0 0 0 0 0
ip6tnl0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
eth2: 60 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 192384 1662 0 0 0 0 0 0
eth0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31598 299 0 0 0 0 2 0
wifi0:225264722 366641 1 14519 0 22104 0 0 33263179 136475 123 2 0 0 0 0
ath0:183537595 186262 0 0 0 0 0 0 27768398 134952 2 2 0 0 0 0
zyd0: 163588 1390 418 137 0 418 0 0 34830 823 2 0 0 0 0 0
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I hope you can help me with this question.
Thanks in advance.