From: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zd1211rw-mac80211: debug output for mac80211 ops
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:50:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46AFAEA5.2010104@warmcat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070731231249.121d55d4@logostar.upir.cz>
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:25:21 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
>> The "soft" one is a faked up repeating of incoming (and outgoing!
>> twice!) packets
>
> You mean you see each outgoing packet twice on soft monitor interface? That
> would be a bug.
It's not all outgoing packets, just the injected ones. I described it here
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=118544939901024&w=2
>> It really would be much better if the device
>> is kicked to hardware promisc if ANY virtual interface is in Monitor
>> mode, therefore the results are consistent regardless of the number of
>> virtual interfaces that happen to be around.
>
> Of course. If the hardware supports that.
Is there any hardware that can't do hardware promisc and let the stack
decide what to throw away? I would imagine the problem of having too
many kinds of packet should be okay to solve by examining MAC addresses
and so on.
-Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-31 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20070730023128.99E927B409F@zog.reactivated.net>
2007-07-30 3:21 ` [PATCH] zd1211rw-mac80211: debug output for mac80211 ops Michael Wu
2007-07-30 14:51 ` John W. Linville
2007-07-30 22:52 ` Ulrich Kunitz
2007-07-30 23:05 ` Michael Buesch
2007-07-30 23:25 ` Andy Green
2007-07-31 21:12 ` Jiri Benc
2007-07-31 21:30 ` Michael Buesch
2007-07-31 21:42 ` Andy Green
2007-07-31 21:50 ` Andy Green [this message]
2007-07-31 5:22 ` Michael Wu
2007-07-31 9:39 ` Michael Buesch
2007-07-31 21:06 ` Jiri Benc
2007-07-31 21:39 ` Michael Buesch
2007-07-31 5:06 ` Michael Wu
2007-07-31 21:00 ` Jiri Benc
2007-07-31 21:37 ` Michael Buesch
2007-07-31 22:10 ` Jiri Benc
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