From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Hacker Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 11:45:11 +0600 Subject: [ath9k-devel] Capture all transmissions with monitor interface In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20121205054511.GA29102@infinet.ru> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 07:43:40PM +0100, Julien Herzen wrote: > Hello, > > I'm sending traffic from a node A to a node B, and I'm capturing traffic > sent by node A, at node A itself, using a monitor interface. I'm doing > this on lossy links, where many re-transmissions occur. It seems, however, > that each packet sent by A is captured only once (with our without retry > bit set). Is there a way to capture _all_ transmissions done by A? No, packets automatically generated by HW i.e. retries, acks, rts/cts is not visible for the software. Only solution is to use node C in monitor mode next to node A. > > I'm using AR9220 on Alix boards with kernel 2.6.32.27. > > Thanks! > > Julien Best wishes, Alex.