Re: Path for fixed channel issue in aircrack-ng suite [V2]

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 15:50 -0400, Richard Farina wrote:

> > This won't quite work. monitor interfaces are always slaves in the sense
> > that their channel setting never takes precedence over anything, so if
> > you add another interface and do something there, the hardware will
> > happily channel switch away from the monitor channel, but it will still
> > report the old channel here that you set.
> >
> > I have no idea how to _properly_ fix this though, since eventually we'll
> > have a situation where you can have multiple interfaces active on
> > different channels, so that monitors don't have a fixed channel anyway.
> >
> > Maybe this patch is sufficient since it works in the case people care
> > about when they _only_ have a monitor interface, but I think it'd be
> > nicer if it wouldn't report anything in the other cases.
> >
> >   
> Is this a NACK or a "I wish there was a better way to do this but I'll 
> allow it until a better way if found"?

I haven't really made up my mind. I really dislike the reporting of
wrong information though, see my other email.

johannes