On Nov 29, 2007 4:38 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Nov 29, 2007 10:53 AM, Francesco Gringoli > <francesco.gringoli@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > I discovered that playing with iface promiscuity to capture traffic > > (including control, promisc and all other stuff) is not working on > > ath5k as rx_filters are never refreshed. To make things going I added > > a single ath5k_hw_set_rx_filters(ah,rfilt) at the end of > > ath5k_configure_filter(). I attach the simple patch. Now tcpdump > > captures everything in monitor mode when iface is set to promisc. > > Are you using monitor or promisc? Promiscous is just supposed to sniff > what you would sniff as if you were on Ethernet -- stuff destined to > your BSSID if STA. Monitor is 'catch it all'. Under this definition, > is it still "misbehaving"? For now you can get a real "monitor" > interface by using iw: > > http://git.sipsolutions.net/iw.git > > However this requires you to have libnl-1.0 pre8. The libnl URL is > down, in fact Thomas's home dir is not even working right now.. hmm, > CC'ing him. You can find pre8 here: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/netlink/libnl.git So I realize there isn't any documentation for iw, so I started it, I'll try to add more when I have time, I invite other developers to help expand that as we go: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/iw Luis - 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
