On 14 July 2015 at 01:06, Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I notice some of my WLE900VX cards will lock up and not receive any packets > after a few seconds of being in PROMISC mode. This happens on my own > CT firmware as well as stock firmware-2.bin. This breaks monitor mode, of > course, but it also breaks bridged AP mode. > > So, I found this patch from way back when: > http://lists.celinuxforum.org/pipermail/bridge/2008-June/005906.html > > I hacked a similar thing into my 4.0.4 kernel, and now bridged mode > AP seems much more stable (and the radio does not go into PROMISC mode, > so it should be more efficient in a busy RF environment). > > Maybe this feature could be revisited? This has already been done and mac80211 in 4.2-rc no longer propagates promisc to drivers[1]. [1]: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/net/mac80211?id=df1404650ccbfeb76a84f301f22316be0d00a864 Michał -- 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
