Re: further plan wrt. monitor interfaces

[Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 05 August 2007, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> On 8/4/07, Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > >  * FIF_PROMISC_IN_BSS (BSS filters still on, but otherwise promisc)
> > >  * FIF_ALLMULTI               (all multicast frames are allowed through)
> > >  * FIF_BROADCAST      (broadcast frames are allowed through)
> > >  * FIF_FCSFAIL                (frames with bad FCS are allowed through)
> > >  * FIF_PLCPFAIL               (frames with bad PLCP checksum are allowed through)
> > >  * FIF_CONTROL                (control frames are shown)
> > >  * FIF_OTHER_BSS      (frames from other BSSes are shown, subject to the
> > >                        other filters)
> > > [missing anything?]
> >
> > rt2x00 registers have the 2 following entries as well:
> >
> >         Physical error
> >         Version error
> >
> >
> > The rest of the idea looks pretty good, si I will be happy to implement it for rt2x00. :)
> >
> > Ivo
> >
> >
> What about decryption error ?

those could be send to the mac80211 stack without the DECRYPTED flag set.
It will be up to mac80211 to take another shot at decrypting, send it further upstream as-is
or just simply drop it.

Ivo