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 23:01:28 +0200 Message-ID: <1145653288.3897.49.camel@localhost> References: <20060421201147.D4F76482CF@silver.suse.cz> <1145651369.3897.33.camel@localhost> <20060421224935.5acd79bf@griffin.suse.cz> <1145652778.3897.43.camel@localhost> <20060421225729.34dae18b@griffin.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-gDcQCotln3o1Pzsfs0Ui" Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "John W. Linville" Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:32713 "EHLO sipsolutions.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932474AbWDUVBc (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:01:32 -0400 To: Jiri Benc In-Reply-To: <20060421225729.34dae18b@griffin.suse.cz> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --=-gDcQCotln3o1Pzsfs0Ui Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 22:57 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote: > On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:52:58 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > and this will work - independently of the value of monitor_during_ope= r. > > > The difference is that in case of monitor_during_oper =3D=3D 0, you w= on'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). > >=20 > > This I don't understand, doesn't the UI kind of suck as opposed to just > > putting the sta0 device into promisc mode? >=20 > In promisc mode, you receive only packets destined to your BSS, > regardless of their source or destination address (so it's similar to > the way promisc works with Ethernet). On monitor interface, you receive > all packets regardless of BSSID. Yes, but didn't you just say that when monitor_during_oper =3D=3D 0 then it's equivalent to promisc mode? johannes --=-gDcQCotln3o1Pzsfs0Ui Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIVAwUARElIJ6Vg1VMiehFYAQK2ig//VtaVKjcf9X8Zlf11HKyZ5RKji23k0o/j 8BFOcd35T8mMmTNC3rs62KrRgnmZZV1LKhodX0EllBOIhSII7SIC++bHEoDcBAum nRRozWk5h71X6l5MP+aSxAFKNgUY2+CsLbeB0oB5Vwm7B5JXBPA2xz+vCEGbGe6M 6rYW2ff8dvxICEwGqDm192TDXTwPCJwI/DL9RqVjdb1xNGSMLsh4EUyLRsWaKIwX Ms2bo/ylqN0ktVp8+2pig32Xq8+w2i64ToEZF2uqsYX/D/+UREtpW21O+KRGqaqx uOGvxDrjiGwRhPU81vEMsSP0OhXnUd7yV4SrzkgLvVHXHweQnDB1CLWNs9u0r0bL YBXe0knB73gY85KwM0V0kcaNYLa/0TyxsF/9257szIf0eZl8oSHLLl8oT8caCR8X l0oxGzipxsyuu1dbY1EsYavGlfHP+BbGxdEBuMIZJERT9cJzjn1gNNie09yovHMi vpgyyzrLv4wiDn1rSkU10F6u7SzuzAZL1OICwE2P1gpA2uYoWxpujowu/ZQtHBp6 b6R1fWvICTuzgXmzq49nZJBFyquqmsRgAnckqy9CSukq12peWGdA+/godk3Yd0+j BYyqM9rGBKDs+Hm2H/4KURcRns6vCgupYjynHoF7Xkdi4pgQrBxD18tWjF5hJZ/t 7EgXXbULSC0= =zCI9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-gDcQCotln3o1Pzsfs0Ui--