On 7/6/07, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 08:33 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Packets to other mac addresses are arriving at the receiver and I can
> trace them up to ieee80211_rx_monitor and onto netif_rx. Something in
> the higher level networking code is filtering out these promiscuous
> packets; but I don't know what was is doing it. It's not iptables
> which it isn't loaded.
That's odd because it works for everybody else. Have you tried with
*only* a monitor interface?
Yes, only interface is monitor.
Here is something else that is odd.
Beacons are reporting channel 1...
08:52:41.922526 1.0 Mb/s 2457 MHz (0x0480) 36dB signal 0us Beacon
(Smirl) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* Mbit] ESS CH: 1, PRIVACY
08:52:42.024888 1.0 Mb/s 2457 MHz (0x0480) 35dB signal 0us Beacon
(Smirl) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* Mbit] ESS CH: 1, PRIVACY
08:52:42.127247 1.0 Mb/s 2457 MHz (0x0480) 36dB signal 0us Beacon
(Smirl) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* Mbit] ESS CH: 1, PRIVACY
08:52:42.229737 1.0 Mb/s 2457 MHz (0x0480) 36dB signal 0us Beacon
(Smirl) [1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* Mbit] ESS CH: 1, PRIVACY
But I am tuned to channel 10.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g Mode:Monitor Frequency:2.457 GHz
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
johannes
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Jon Smirl
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