From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Roskin Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:24:48 -0400 Subject: [ath9k-devel] ath9k Monitor mode In-Reply-To: <4C765C78.3050804@berkeley.edu> References: <4C765C78.3050804@berkeley.edu> Message-ID: <1283282688.3091.11.camel@mj> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org 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