Re: [Madwifi-users] two madwifi interfaces in monitor mode

[M.N.A.Smadi <sm...@gr...>]

Pavel Roskin wrote:

>On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 11:32 -0400, M.N.A.Smadi wrote:
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>>Hi There;
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>>can I have ethereal sniffing over to atheros cards simultaneously or is 
>>does the driver actually prevent that?
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>The driver only prevents having multiple interfaces in monitor mode when
>they are associated with the same card.  It's fine to have one interface
>in monitor mode for each card.
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I finally managed to make it work. I guess one needs to have N different 
instances of ethereal running where N is the number of interfaces in 
monitor mode. If one uses the "any" interface, IEEE802.11 header dont 
seem to be present.

thanks
moe smadi