On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 17:36 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > But that would mean that when a non-monitor and monitor interface are > enabled at the same time, the montitor interface is quite pointless since > all frames can be caught on the regular interface as well. Not true, monitor mode interfaces gives you a lot more info (radiotap.) > A monitor interface is supposed to catch as many frames as possible, > if a monitor interface does not catch frames not directly send to it, it won't > catch anything except beacons. Not if we want to use monitor interfaces for the userspace mlme. > Even when there is only 1 interface which is in monitor mode, the user shouldn't > have to set the device into promisc mode right? Actually, imho they should have to. And tcpdump always does anyway. johannes
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