From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/17] d80211: fix monitor interfaces
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:52:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1145652778.3897.43.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060421224935.5acd79bf@griffin.suse.cz>
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On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 22:49 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
>
> "Hard" monitor mode means the card is operating in a true rfmon mode -
> i.e. you get everything on the given channel. "Soft" monitor mode means
> that you will get only frames the device is willing to give you at the
> time - this probably means only frames belonging to your BSS in case of
> fullmac cards.
Ok, thanks for clarifying; this description should be somewhere in the
comments or so IMHO.
> and this will work - independently of the value of monitor_during_oper.
> The difference is that in case of monitor_during_oper == 0, you won't
> probably receive much more frames from mon0 than from sta0. But - you
> will most likely receive beacons on mon0 and also monitoring headers
> (prism2 headers presently).
This I don't understand, doesn't the UI kind of suck as opposed to just
putting the sta0 device into promisc mode?
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-21 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-21 20:11 [PATCH 0/17] d80211 patches Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:11 ` [PATCH 1/17] d80211: Replace MODULE_PARM with module_param Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:11 ` [PATCH 2/17] d80211: symlinks to wiphy in sysfs Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:11 ` [PATCH 3/17] d80211: allow WDS remote to by set by WE Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:11 ` [PATCH 4/17] d80211: add IBSS and monitor interface types Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:11 ` [PATCH 5/17] d80211: non-shared " Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:11 ` [PATCH 6/17] d80211: remove local->bssid variable Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:11 ` [PATCH 7/17] d80211: rename IEEE80211_SUB_IF_TYPE_ constants Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:11 ` [PATCH 8/17] d80211: ask driver for allowed iface combinations Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:11 ` [PATCH 9/17] d80211: remove obsolete stuff Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:11 ` [PATCH 10/17] d80211: fix interface configuration Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:11 ` [PATCH 11/17] d80211: rename adm_status to radio_enabled Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:11 ` [PATCH 12/17] d80211: interface types changeable by SIOCSIWMODE Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:11 ` [PATCH 13/17] d80211: master interface auto up/down Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:11 ` [PATCH 14/17] d80211: set_multicast_list Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:11 ` [PATCH 15/17] d80211: fix handling of received frames Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:11 ` [PATCH 16/17] d80211: fix monitor interfaces Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:29 ` Johannes Berg
2006-04-21 20:49 ` Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:52 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2006-04-21 20:57 ` Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 21:01 ` Johannes Berg
2006-04-21 21:05 ` Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 21:05 ` Johannes Berg
2006-04-21 20:11 ` [PATCH 17/17] d80211: fix AP interfaces Jiri Benc
2006-04-21 20:52 ` [PATCH 0/17] d80211 patches Michael Buesch
2006-04-21 20:52 ` Jiri Benc
2006-04-26 19:39 ` John W. Linville
2006-04-26 21:27 ` Ivo van Doorn
2006-04-27 12:49 ` Michael Buesch
2006-04-28 15:45 ` [PATCH] bcm43xx_d80211: fix bug in open Jiri Benc
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