Re: IPW2200 monitoring FW broken

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Thursday 15 February 2007 17:35, James Ketrenos wrote:
> Michael Buesch wrote:
> > Is IPW2200 monitoring FW still broken?
> > I miss huge amounts of packets when I try to monitor
> > some traffic.
> > 
> > I'm using current wireless-2.6 + v3.0 firmware.
> > 
> > Using two antennas.
> > 
> 
> What type of frames?  Data or management & control?

Well, I saw beacons from my AP getting lost an I immediately gave up.

> If you use wireshark to capture,

I do.

> you can't update the packet capture  
> window or you'll lose packets; but you should be able to get them all if 
> you're doing a tethereal > somefile or if you turn off the update of the 
> main window.

"update of the packet capture window". What's that?
I started a simple traffic monitoring in wireshark. Nothing fancy.

> I'm not sure if it can capture control frames or not.  I seem to recall 
> it getting some ACK frames but I don't think it was passing up all of 
> them, or if it ever passed up the CTS frames.  But you should be getting 
> the bulk of the data frames.
> 
> Yi -- do you recall what the ipw2200 firmware would pass up?

It never passed up ACK frames for me. But that's ok.

-- 
Greetings Michael.