On 2/5/07, Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The zd1211 based Gigafast USB dongles does not appear to be properly
shielded. If I get my Dlink wifi link dongle too close to the Gigafast
one, the Gigafast one starts receiving all kinds of spurious packets,
There is no effect in the other
Andy Green wrote:
I think in managed mode the firmware in the stick insists that valid
packets are marked up with either the AP or your MAC address, or some
similar strict regime.
I have also seen in monitor mode nearby transmissions on different
channels (!) turning up on another
On 2/9/07, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andy Green wrote:
I think in managed mode the firmware in the stick insists that valid
packets are marked up with either the AP or your MAC address, or some
similar strict regime.
I have also seen in monitor mode nearby transmissions on
Jon Smirl wrote:
If could be that these noise packets are being received in Managed
mode and the firmware is eliminating them.
Yes -- Andy Green pointed this out earlier today and he is entirely
correct. This behaviour is expected. I think in this case the filtering
is done in hardware, as
