On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 09:43:28PM +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote: > 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 Excellent, this solved my problem. Thank you Christian. Marco -- 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
