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non-promisc monitor interfaces [was: Re: Question about PRISM2 header rate field]

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On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 22:10 -0500, Michael Wu wrote:

> Note that modifying the management interface to do this is possible, but it 
> would break hostap (and probably wpa_supplicant w/ MLME). Doing packet 
> injection on monitor interfaces instead is safer in that regard.

I just thought about monitor interfaces unrelated to this. We really
should allow monitor interfaces to switch between soft and hard monitor
modes by toggling the promisc bit so that you can have a soft monitor
interface (to see what's going on between you and the AP) without the
power penalty.

johannes

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