From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org
Subject: [ath9k-devel] ath9k Monitor mode
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:24:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1283282688.3091.11.camel@mj> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C765C78.3050804@berkeley.edu>
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 15:22 +0300, Arash wrote:
> I'm trying to use the ath9k in monitor mode, but how it seems to work is
> that it doesn't capture all the data traffic from other networks in
> addition to control traffic and the internal traffic.
>
> Can any one tell me if it is possible to put the radio in fully enabled
> promiscuous mode? The Madwifi monitor mode enables you to capture all
> the traffic and I was wondering if ath9k is different?
I believe ath9k should be able to capture all packets, but it may be
using a MAC filter is the promiscuous mode is not set. If you are using
a program that doesn't enable promiscuous mode by itself (as tcpdump and
wireshark would do), you should do it using ifconfig.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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2010-08-26 12:22 [ath9k-devel] ath9k Monitor mode Arash
2010-08-31 19:24 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
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