Re: Cisco cards and rfmon oddities on FreeBSD.

On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 15:53, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <[email protected]>
>             Bob Fleck <[email protected]> writes:
> : On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 14:17, Pedro la Peu wrote:
> : > Does anyone use Cisco 802.11 cards in rfmon mode on FreeBSD, and if so,
> : > are you seeing any problems? What might be the cause of these FreeBSD
> : > oddities, does anyone have any ideas?
> : 
> : I've actually seen some of the same behavior with Prism based cards
> : using Kismet on FreeBSD.  Haven't figure it out yet.  But I have seen
> : people hinting that the FreeBSD drivers are adding bytes into the frames
> : somewhere...
> 
> Hmmmm, that's news to me.  And I'd kinda think I'd know about it...

Let me restate, some people said that was the case.  I don't necessarily
believe them, but haven't had time to look into it.

That said, it definitely does not work for me.  I get the massive
duplication of mangled SSIDs detected, and other bizareness.  I can give
anyone who wants it some dumps.

Bob

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