On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 06:08:46PM -0400, Tomasz Kalbarczyk wrote: > Hello, Hi! > I have a QCA6174 and I'm running tcpdump on the wireless interface to > listen for packets. I can receive packets addressed directly to the > device, but not any other packets on the network. > > Does anyone know the status of promiscuous mode support on ath10k? > Note that this is different from monitor mode / supported on a larger > subset of hardware. Dmesg merely indicates that the device has > "entered promiscuous mode" when tcpdump is initiated. > > Here is a link to similar discussion regarding the ath9k a few years > back: https://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=135936563626791&w=2 This might be relevant: commit df1404650ccbfeb76a84f301f22316be0d00a864 Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Apr 22 14:40:58 2015 +0200 mac80211: remove support for IFF_PROMISC This support is essentially useless as typically networks are encrypted, frames will be filtered by hardware, and rate scaling will be done with the intended recipient in mind. For real monitoring of the network, the monitor mode support should be used instead. Removing it removes a lot of corner cases. Regards, Brian
