On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 01:46 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote: > Can you enlighten me and tell me why the monitor interface is > preferable over management interface? I've probably got busy and > missed the whole conversation. Oh, I can name a number of reasons :) * magic needed to conjure it * munged prism2 header that nothing but hostapd/wpa_supplicant understands * special cases all over the code to stuff frames there > I'm not so familiar with monitor interface but isn't it to be > sniffing interface - everything goes up including data raw packets. Well, in a way you're right. But please review the recent filter flags patches I posted. And I'm using BPF to avoid seeing data frames other than those I need. > What if management frames needs decryption? I think this is 802.11w > specs that defines that. I thought radiotap injection could handle that, but it turns out that I need to think again, especially about EAPOL frames. I'll address these things in a reply to Jouni's mail, but that'll take a bit longer than just going through and replying. johannes
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