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authorDamien Bergamini <damien@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-10-21 18:39:26 +0000
committerDamien Bergamini <damien@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-10-21 18:39:26 +0000
commit414b81d3b17102a765dc8117c456a89585a74d53 (patch)
tree86c73f13e0444a72555adee07414a06ff2fb365c
parentbfee872fa860909f5b794bd1e253305c36cf0be5 (diff)
remove IBSS and add monitor mode to the list of supported
operating modes.
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/zyd.417
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/zyd.4 b/share/man/man4/zyd.4
index bd75c0c9036..cbeb1370ded 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/zyd.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/zyd.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: zyd.4,v 1.7 2006/10/21 18:18:50 damien Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: zyd.4,v 1.8 2006/10/21 18:39:25 damien Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999
.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu>. All rights reserved.
@@ -54,15 +54,12 @@ Also known as
mode, this is used when associating with an access point, through
which all traffic passes.
This mode is the default.
-.It IBSS mode
-Also known as
-.Em IEEE ad-hoc
-mode or
-.Em peer-to-peer
-mode.
-This is the standardized method of operating without an access point.
-Stations associate with a service set.
-However, actual connections between stations are peer-to-peer.
+.It monitor mode
+In this mode the driver is able to receive packets without
+associating with an access point.
+This disables the internal receive filter and enables the card to
+capture packets from networks which it wouldn't normally have access to,
+or to scan for access points.
.El
.Pp
.Nm