.TH "ATHSTATS" "8" "February 2006" "" "".SH "NAME"\fBathstats\fP \- simple tool to inspect and monitor network traffic statistics.SH "SYNOPSIS".B athstats.I "[\-i device] [interval]".SH "DESCRIPTION"Provide statistics about a madwifi device. Without any arguments,\fBathstats\fP will print a summary of statistical elements for the specifieddevice (defaults to wifi0 when no device is given). If an additional argumentis given as an integer, athstats will print progressive statistical data at aninterval equal to the integer in seconds..PPStatistical elements of the summary report include packets sent/received, tx/rxerrors, calibration information and antenna profile data..PPThe progressive report elements include packet input/output as well as altrate,short, long, xretry, crcerr, crypt, phyerror packet count, rssi and rate data..PPThe statistical data is derived from device ioctls and /proc/net/dev. Forfurther understanding of how the statistical information is collected and whatit represents, please refer to the \fBathstats\fP source code(tools/athstats.c)..SH "OPTIONS".TP.B \-i deviceThe madwifi device to apply the settings to. If no device is specified, \fBathstats\fP defaults to wifi0..TP.B intervalDefine the interval between realtime statistical feedback in seconds..PP.SH "EXAMPLES".TP.B athstatsPrint summary of statistics for wifi0..TP.B athstats 1Update a progressive statistical report every 1 second for wifi0..TP.B athstats \-i wifi1 5Update a progressive statistical report every 5 seconds for wifi1..PP.SH "SEE ALSO"\fB80211stats\fP(8).SH "AUTHOR"This manual page was written by Kel Modderman <kelrin@tpg.com.au>.