Somebody in the thread at some point said: > On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:25:21 +0100, Andy Green wrote: >> The "soft" one is a faked up repeating of incoming (and outgoing! >> twice!) packets > > You mean you see each outgoing packet twice on soft monitor interface? That > would be a bug. It's not all outgoing packets, just the injected ones. I described it here http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=118544939901024&w=2 >> It really would be much better if the device >> is kicked to hardware promisc if ANY virtual interface is in Monitor >> mode, therefore the results are consistent regardless of the number of >> virtual interfaces that happen to be around. > > Of course. If the hardware supports that. Is there any hardware that can't do hardware promisc and let the stack decide what to throw away? I would imagine the problem of having too many kinds of packet should be okay to solve by examining MAC addresses and so on. -Andy - 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
