Return-path: Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:50820 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751023AbXDHKT0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Apr 2007 06:19:26 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: RFC: ieee80211: Spamming of log resulting from packets with ExtIV not set Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 12:18:48 +0200 Cc: Larry Finger , Jouni Malinen , wireless References: <4616DD7E.6010606@lwfinger.net> <46171B36.6090108@lwfinger.net> <1176019813.8459.15.camel@johannes.berg> In-Reply-To: <1176019813.8459.15.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Message-Id: <200704081218.49055.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sunday 08 April 2007 10:10, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 23:16 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > > > As far as I can tell, FCS errors are not filtered. > > Actually, they are filtered by the firmware and never passed up to the > driver unless you set the "rx invalid frames" bit in the mac control > field. Since the driver never sets that except with some of the module > parameters (or is that modparm bcm43xx-mac80211 only?) the FCS on all > frames passed up should be fine. FCS corrupted frames are always filtered in bcm43xx. There's a hack module parameter to pass them up in monitor mode in bcm43xx-mac80211. -- Greetings Michael.