The following procedure describes how to monitor the status of a WiFi link through standard networking tools and also how to change a selected link property.
# dladm show-linkprop link
Caution - Oracle Solaris automatically selects the optimal speed for a WiFi connection. Modifying the initial speed of the link might diminish performance or prevent the establishment of certain WiFi connections. |
You can modify the link speed to one of the possible values that is listed in the output of the show-linkprop subcommand, as shown in the following example:
# dladm set-linkprop -p speed=value link
# netstat -I net0 -i 5 input net0 output input (Total) output packets errs packets errs colls packets errs packets errs colls 317 0 106 0 0 2905 0 571 0 0 14 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 16 0 1 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 304 0 10 0 0 631 0 316 0 0 338 0 9 0 0 722 0 381 0 0 294 0 7 0 0 670 0 371 0 0 306 0 5 0 0 649 0 338 0 0 289 0 5 0 0 597 0 301 0 0
The following example shows how you would set the speed of a link after you have connected to a WiFi network.
# dladm show-linkprop -p speed net0 LINK PROPERTY PERM VALUE EFFECTIVE DEFAULT POSSIBLE net0 speed r- 25 0 0 1,2,5,6,9,11,12,18,24,36,48,54 # dladm set-linkprop -p speed=36 net0 # dladm show-linkprop -p speed net0 LINK PROPERTY PERM VALUE EFFECTIVE DEFAULT POSSIBLE net0 speed r- 36 0 0 1,2,5,6,9,11,12,18,24,36,48,54