From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/17] d80211: fix monitor interfaces Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:52:58 +0200 Message-ID: <1145652778.3897.43.camel@localhost> References: <20060421201147.D4F76482CF@silver.suse.cz> <1145651369.3897.33.camel@localhost> <20060421224935.5acd79bf@griffin.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-aHg3kTr+2mw9noAhdIPg" Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "John W. Linville" Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:60824 "EHLO sipsolutions.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932449AbWDUUxC (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:53:02 -0400 To: Jiri Benc In-Reply-To: <20060421224935.5acd79bf@griffin.suse.cz> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --=-aHg3kTr+2mw9noAhdIPg Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 22:49 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote: >=20 > "Hard" monitor mode means the card is operating in a true rfmon mode - > i.e. you get everything on the given channel. "Soft" monitor mode means > that you will get only frames the device is willing to give you at the > time - this probably means only frames belonging to your BSS in case of > fullmac cards.=20 Ok, thanks for clarifying; this description should be somewhere in the comments or so IMHO. > and this will work - independently of the value of monitor_during_oper. > The difference is that in case of monitor_during_oper =3D=3D 0, you won't > probably receive much more frames from mon0 than from sta0. But - you > will most likely receive beacons on mon0 and also monitoring headers > (prism2 headers presently). This I don't understand, doesn't the UI kind of suck as opposed to just putting the sta0 device into promisc mode? johannes --=-aHg3kTr+2mw9noAhdIPg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIVAwUARElGKaVg1VMiehFYAQKhfg/8CLSKvhGs+dQTRcwyL7c5hzUau0SaePnq CglhH1HDN+jQ9sAOXwcNhv+KWAq8v/d7ydrI0uDmPEwl2BI8MqTh7NEOQUjxCDlR q3VTdl/ywER+RLDzY/yfx2AG1ojQHQ3wQ5HJhAhPpHeqJ03jjLVrLTkvHfWQI/lu 8N9cFukrNW3lGprAYBSBEHKmlrqEF0ijXoZAW5F1++WzTbVAzRBVx4PZG9ZhSHHD ttNuZ+RYKouJEz0DAAuNaCnNyxQgU0cQMCtvexTZeplLvA9D2QykdjiCVkaT0dan 2zD7EZ+YpZVlka3yZYoYe9izTd3oqDEjiUtKCnuNMw2lQ4pfoUeKxtSEzi7ra65q u6TW83nhmCYZ4v22OXKbk+NnEzofSedO1G7yP7bxaPg6sDoeqah9bbhyM9yq8rYA ecAunJx0y0KjXTBrLBpkgRNDWYGvLwjjXekMDOa7Wgd33akHSkpeiL2QhVXs6EQn 0F/8fEQaNivgQ4z8hULfxta/Uj+2h8yeoKlqYUCJjVXG0R0c39Id1skz/wYtk7QW biX26tMgU9GOeYhnz9ynaZ9SOLVrojbQcMwVjXCY4eil+NcFCcHxFj2WUY6CwZY7 w42mutl1nzx02gq6OtAZL7gupuuFoE9/tDoRGo0ONZTKHWyekD6kgd0dWMSx+rNl 0qFa6y1E/jM= =S0cz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-aHg3kTr+2mw9noAhdIPg--