On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 02:33:21AM +0100, Jonathan Andrews wrote: > distributions because for reasons purely political (as far as I can > tell???) the promisc mode was left on the cutting room floor !!! WHY > !!!! Promisc mode (on those adapters that support it) is actually rather complicated in the wireless world. A lot of the old prism firmware doesn't support it for example. OpenAP has to basically take over the h/w at a much lower level to handle that and that involves a native 802.11 stack - which oddly enough is the direction that stuff is going
