you need a sniffer

trying to do this by getting somekind of tell tale from the code is very
difficult.

you need to instrument the network.



On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Srikanth Nori <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Christian,
>
> In my experience at least, tracking down problems with ACKs has been
> phenomenally difficult. I have no direct advice but a couple of
> suggestions:
>
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Christian Renner
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > We have 3 nodes: one receiver R and two senders A and B. Software ACKs
> > are used.
>
> Have you tried with hardware ACK? Is there a reason you're using software
> ACKs?
>
> >
> > - I installed a sniffing node to see what really is on the channel: only
> > the ACK from R to A (no ACK from R to B!)
>
> Just out of curiosity - what sniffer are you using? I used a cc2531emk
> [1] and I know it missed some packets either because of radio
> interference/losses (which makes sense) or potentially due to USB
> issues (which doesn't, and can be very misleading).
>
> > The question now is if it is possible that a packet from the RXFIFO is
> > obtained a second time and how this issue could be solved.
>
> Perhaps someone more knowledgeable than me should comment on this, but
> my understanding is that this is very unlikely because of the nature
> of the design. I believe the FIFO is emptied as it is read.
>
>
> [1] http://www.ti.com/tool/cc2531emk
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