On Friday 03 August 2007, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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. Well I hope so, otherwise I'll get quite a lot of bugreports. ;) Next rt2x00 release will not treat monitor mode interfaces special. Just read the http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/developers/mac80211/semantics article So the next rt2x00 will comply with that. Ivo - 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
