On Mon May 25, 2020 at 7:23 AM EDT, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2020-05-13 at 13:48 -0400, Marco Fonseca wrote: > > Hello, > > > > While in monitor mode, the 8265 will periodically transmit gratuitous > > LLC packets. In this mode, I would expect the wifi chipset to not > > transmit any packets at all (unless packet injection is being used). > > > > This behavior can be observed by a second wifi device in monitor mode. > > A display filter on wireshark/tshark of 'llc' makes these easy to spot. > > > > It seems these packets only get produced in presence of a few APs > > and/or STAs but I'm not sure of the exact cause. I don't see the LLC > > packets on very quiet channels. > > I think these are somehow related to calibrations in the device. > > johannes Are you perhaps implying that I can alter calibration settings to fix this problem? If you have any pointers to this it would be appreciative. Regardless though, I would still expect the default behavior to not emit packets when in monitor mode, unless the user directs it to; similar to what I've seen from other wifi chipsets. Marco
