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_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? > > 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 == 0 then it's equivalent to promisc mode? johannes
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