On Thursday, August 09, 2012 06:54:34 PM Marco Fonseca wrote: > Hello All, > > I've noticed unexpected transmissions from the AR9170 while in monitor mode > and using tcpdump (and sometimes without tcpdump running). These > transmissions degrade (pretty significantly) performance of other STA/AP on > the channel (as seen by iperf going from 60mbit/s to almost nill). As best I > can tell these transmissions never coalesces into an actual frame in the air > (at least not one I'm able to pick up with a second different adapter in > monitor mode). > > Are there any known reasons/bugs on this? Is there anyway to completely > silence the transmitter of the AR9170 while still allowing reception? > yes. <http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg88896.html> a solution is described in: <http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg89279.html> (iw dev wlanX set monitor none - if I'm not mistaken) Regards, Chr -- 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
