Hi.
I want to ask 2 questions about gli mini routers.
1- Do their wlan interfaces support monitor mode? (or promiscuous mode)
2- Is it possible to decrease or increase the signal strength of wlan interface?
Thank you…
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No idea what that is, so don’t know.
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Yes
The transmit power for the wireless is controlled by a slider in the Wireless Display Status screen in the GLi gui and in the Wireless devices detail screen in Luci. It is controlled by the Master entry.
On V2.25 (MIFI), and older versions as I recall the display for signal strength in the Wireless Status Display is set in the middle, however there is no line in the wireless file for “option txpower”. In Luci if one looks at the Transmit Power in Luci, it is set the Max for the regulatory agency. In my case 18dbm in the US. I assume this is set when one chooses the location\timezone during setup.
Moving the slider slightly to the right shows 12 and will add the line “option txpower ‘12’” to the wifi-device section. You are probably at max power if you make no changes to the default setting.
I have a AR300M and I think promiscuous mode is possible:
#turn it on
ifconfig wlan0 promisc
#lets see
ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr E4:95:6E:40:BE:16
inet6 addr: fe80::e695:6eff:fe40:be16%eth0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1838 (1.7 KiB) TX bytes:10652 (10.4 KiB)
As you can see it reports “PROMISC”. But at the moment I don’t have any software on it to try it out and see if it actually works.
But as the driver reports it I would assume it does work.
Does not answer the question of what it is or does?
I was answering the original posting.
And should you be curious about things…Google can be a friend.
Yes it support monitor/Promiscuous mode flawlessly. This is one major features that we sell to business customers.
Thank you very much.
Have a nice day…