From: Masanori Nakahara (masa_at_cs.washington.edu)
Date: 2002-03-22 02:24:54 UTC
Hi Jouni,
Thank you for your advice.
> prism2ethereal uses monitor mode 1 just like wlansniff. It is supposed
> (haven't tested it for a while ;-)) to create a dump file (to stdout?)
> that can be read to Ethereal.
I see.
Although I tried to use prism2ethereal on monitor 1, it generated a dump
file to stdout which gets garbled.
> Monitor mode 2 changes the wlan0 device to include 802.11 header so
> that it can be sniffed directly, e.g., using Ethereal, so that there
> is no need for temporary files. This requires quite new version of
> libpcap. In addition, this does not include the Prism2 specific RX
> header (that has, e.g., signal quality info, etc.).
I found new thing....
When I run "iwpriv wlan0 monitor 1 or 2", the driver looks buggy:
sometime miss associate access point or change essid to "test", ..etc.
Is it possible to use iwpriv monitor 1 or 2 on Managed network?
Are there any restriction to use monitor mode ?
I appreciate any feedback.
masa