On Wednesday 20 June 2007 01:30:38 Johannes Berg wrote: > When bcm43xx goes into monitor mode, it always is a promisc monitor > mode. For the hostapd using monitor interfaces, we'll want to only go > into monitor mode if it's really required. I previously thought that > this requires changes to mac80211, but mac80211 does in fact already > seem to handle IFF_PROMISC appropriately. Hence, this change is the > only required to get proper semantics for a monitor interface that > isn't in promiscuous mode on bcm43xx. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > Since wireshark/tcpdump by default still set IFF_PROMISC everything will > work just fine, but if somebody really wants a monitor interface that > isn't promisc this makes it work too. However, you'll of course get all > packets still if any other interface is set promisc. We don't do any > promisc/non-promisc filtering in the stack when multiple monitor > interfaces are open. Applied, thanks. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
