Re: [Madwifi-devel] linux vs. radiotap/monitor mode
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From: Michael R. <ma...@no...> - 2005-04-11 13:16:48
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Hi. Sebastian Weitzel wrote: > Maybe a solution would be to use promiscuous mode. If e.g. tcpdump is > enabled with promisc, then the driver forwards the 802.11 packets to > userspace. Bad idea. As far as I know the kernel doesn't know how to handle pure 802.11 frames. The idea was to be able to sniff the 802.11 frames while still being able to make normal use of the wlan interface. Bye, Mike |