On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 17:12 +0100, Stefanik Gábor wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 16:47 +0100, Stefanik Gábor wrote: > >> This patch regressed support for aireplay-ng's "fragmentation attack" feature! > >> > >> Prior to the landing of this patch (as commit > >> caeb36d73b23b52a0ea2a8368502ef8230fa67b3), applying the patch @ > >> http://patches.aircrack-ng.org/mac80211_2.6.28-rc4-wl_frag+ack_v2.patch > >> allowed aireplay-ng's fragmentation attack to work with almost all > >> mac80211 drivers, including ath5k. After the landing of this patch, > >> the attack fails with "No answer, repeating...". (Regression found > >> using git bisect, and verified by local backout of commit > >> caeb36d73b23b52a0ea2a8368502ef8230fa67b3.) > > > > Unless I misunderstand... but not all drivers will report their MAC > > address until they have opened the device (ie, add_interface time), > > because not all devices load firmware until the interface is opened, and > > thus some cannot read their MAC address until that time. > > > > So aireplay-ng is broken if it relies on the device having a valid mac > > address before the device is opened. > > > > Dan > > > > That is not the problem - aireplay-ng operates on a monitor interface > that is already up. Likely this patch somehow misses monitor > interfaces. Ah, ok. Ignore my mail then :) dan -- 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
