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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:19:24 -0400
From: Richard Farina <sidhayn@gmail.com>
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To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
CC: Gabriele Gristina <matrix.use.linux@gmail.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fixed injection in monitor mode
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Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 04:09 +0200, Gabriele Gristina wrote:
>   
>> I have a problem with mac80211 injection:
>> if i setup interface in monitor mode with iwconfig and i try to send a
>> custum 802.11 frame i see twice the packet in monitor interface.
>> The first packet is right, the second is different only in the radiotap
>> header: rtap len is fixed to 13 bytes...
>> If i setup interface with airmon-ng the packet is sended once but the
>> radiotap header is fixed to 13 bytes.
>>     
>
> This is correct. The patch is wrong.
>
>   
I'm very stupid, could you please elaborate how seeing every single 
packets twice with different headers is "correct"?

Thanks,
Rick
> johannes
>