Re: Promiscuous patches

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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.

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