Monitoring mode gets frames from more than one channel!

eduardgv eduardgv at gmail.com
Fri Feb 11 09:10:01 EST 2005


> One more question to eduardgv that how you were able to see 802.11
> packets on the card in managed mode, beacuse in my setup i can see
> 802.11 header in ethereal only when i set the card in monitor mode, in
> other modes(master or manged) it only shows ethernet header.
> 


OK, that could be a little confising...No, I wasn't able to see 802.11
headers in managed mode. I just was wondering if even in monitor mode,
the firmware was still passive scanning or something.


Edu



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