Hi Alex, If I'm following correctly you need to add a monitor interface as well as a node/coord interface to the PHY. so we would see wpan0 and wpanmon0 and then I could do a tcpdump -i wpanmon0? - Martin. On 18/09/14 10:41, Alexander Aring wrote: > In promiscuous mode, the phy interrupts on any frame which is received, > you don't have any address filtering mac functionality on the phy > anymore. That means you have only the linux mac802154 address filtering > functionality running. That means the phy doesn't filter anymore and you > get really all frames and the internal mac802154 filter drops the > packets. > > To enable promiscuous mode on a wpan/node type makes no sense. To enables > promiscuous mode on MONITOR makes, sense. On MONITOR type we don't run > any mac802154 address filtering and you will get any frame on the > monitor interface. > > > I hope it's understandable what I mean here a little bit. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wpan" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html