From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.175]:28303 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754595AbXHCP7h (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 11:59:37 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so480662ugf for ; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:59:35 -0700 (PDT) To: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/24] rt2x00: Add Multicast/Broadcast filtering Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 18:04:04 +0200 Cc: "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <200707312037.33060.IvDoorn@gmail.com> <200708031736.27782.IvDoorn@gmail.com> <1186155722.4647.55.camel@johannes.berg> In-Reply-To: <1186155722.4647.55.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Message-Id: <200708031804.04234.IvDoorn@gmail.com> From: Ivo van Doorn Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Friday 03 August 2007, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 17:36 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > > > But that would mean that when a non-monitor and monitor interface are > > enabled at the same time, the montitor interface is quite pointless since > > all frames can be caught on the regular interface as well. > > Not true, monitor mode interfaces gives you a lot more info (radiotap.) > > > A monitor interface is supposed to catch as many frames as possible, > > if a monitor interface does not catch frames not directly send to it, it won't > > catch anything except beacons. > > Not if we want to use monitor interfaces for the userspace mlme. > > > Even when there is only 1 interface which is in monitor mode, the user shouldn't > > have to set the device into promisc mode right? > > Actually, imho they should have to. And tcpdump always does anyway. Well I hope so, otherwise I'll get quite a lot of bugreports. ;) Next rt2x00 release will not treat monitor mode interfaces special. Just read the http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/developers/mac80211/semantics article So the next rt2x00 will comply with that. Ivo