On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 22:49 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote: > > "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.
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 == 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
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