Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:50900 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932398AbXCELYb (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 06:24:31 -0500 Subject: non-promisc monitor interfaces [was: Re: Question about PRISM2 header rate field] From: Johannes Berg To: Michael Wu Cc: Andy Green , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200703042210.52534.flamingice@sourmilk.net> References: <45EA9E39.6080706@warmcat.com> <1173053744.6131.40.camel@johannes.berg> <45EB6C3B.2060408@warmcat.com> <200703042210.52534.flamingice@sourmilk.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-nHGDtGUuuP5RsQcD5pAt" Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:24:03 +0100 Message-Id: <1173093843.6131.49.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-nHGDtGUuuP5RsQcD5pAt Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 22:10 -0500, Michael Wu wrote: > Note that modifying the management interface to do this is possible, but = it=20 > would break hostap (and probably wpa_supplicant w/ MLME). Doing packet=20 > injection on monitor interfaces instead is safer in that regard. I just thought about monitor interfaces unrelated to this. We really should allow monitor interfaces to switch between soft and hard monitor modes by toggling the promisc bit so that you can have a soft monitor interface (to see what's going on between you and the AP) without the power penalty. johannes --=-nHGDtGUuuP5RsQcD5pAt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBF6/3T/ETPhpq3jKURAmbkAKCMkJ9d4GwEm4UEfhJyMRxcq+G3ZgCeJr2E A8jIOq/gj7+a/LClm4Qv2Tc= =Jl3/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-nHGDtGUuuP5RsQcD5pAt--