On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Brad Midgley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey > >> There is an email from Andy Green in March saying says we don't have >> monitor mode, which I think means no promiscuous mode. AFAIK monitor mode and promiscuous mode are two different things. Monitor mode makes the card receive everything going over the air, not just packets with its SSID, while promiscuous mode allows you to receive IP traffic not destined for you (in a network connected with a hub, when you use a switch, things get interesting with ARP hijacking and the like)
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