On Friday 20 April 2012 09:41:15 Janusz Dziedzic wrote: > Hello, > > I am using newest compat-wireless + newest-firmware. > Next I setup monitor mode + channel and run wireshark - I do that to > record TCP flow on the channel. > > Before that I had TCP throughput about 30Mbit/s and after run > wireshark I see TP drop - about 3Mbit/s (after setting monitor mode). > This TP is between AP and other STA on the same channel. > > Should I set/check something more to not see this TP drop? Well, I don't know how you exactly setup the mode. But If the monitor interface is set to PROMISC, then it's likely that the hardware will be set into a special "sniffer" operation mode. This mode is great if you are interested in frames with bad PLCPs and FCS but it is not so great for throughput because the rx filter won't filter anymore and the tons of garbage that usually is dropped early on gets passed to the host and on it's way it competes for FIFO resources with the data. (One more thing: Isn't it possible to get the TCP flow, from the "ethernet" (as ifconfig calls it) interface of the wlan device as well?) Regards, Christian -- 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
