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On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 22:21 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:

> Looking at this now, the behaviour you describe is not what happens. 
> When I bring up an interface set to monitor mode, zd_mac_add_interface() 
> gets called with a non-NULL mac address, the actual MAC of the device. 
> So, when zd_mac_open gets called soon after, it calls zd_write_mac_addr 
> with a non-NULL address, so it succeeds as normal.
> 
> Should I ignore the above and just set an all-zero MAC in the hardware 
> when a monitor interface is brought up? (setting all-zero will disable acks)

Oh, hm, it looks like there's a behavioural difference in mac80211 when
you have IEEE80211_HW_MONITOR_DURING_OPER vs. when you don't.

johannes

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