[Madwifi-devel] which kind of frames are observed in monitor mode?

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HI Guys,

Thanks so much for your kind assistance and I need further suggestions here:

I installed wiresharp in my laptop and can collect data in monitor mode.
However, I have something unclear here:

1) Since wireless channel is broadcast, a station tries to receive a frame
without the knowledge of its destination. Upon successful reception, if the
frame is not destined to him, the wireless card will discard it;

2) There is some probability that a card tried to receive a frame but
unfortunately the reception in unsuccessful due to some factors, such as crc
error, etc.

Then the question is: Will the two kinds of frames described above appear
in monitor trace? If so, how to know the further info on whether it was
received correctly or not?



Answers and suggestions are warmly welcomed.


Kai caihong

2008-05-27