Receiving your own wifi beacons

[Avery Pennarun]

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Yeoh Chun-Yeow <yeohchunyeow at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> We're currently investigating a problem where the ath10k AP will
>> seemingly stop sending out beacons, with no other obvious symptoms
>> (hostapd is still working fine).  There's not much I can report
>> because, of course, no symptoms.
>>
>> We would like to detect this situation automatically by watching for
>> outgoing beacons, but we've noticed that when we create a monitor
>> interface, we can see all the beacons *except* ones generated by the
>> local AP.  This seems to also be true with ath9k, so it may not be an
>> ath10k-specific problem, but we'd like some way to see them going out
>> (at the expense of some wasted CPU, of course).
>>
>> Is there any magic incantation that can un-hide the beacons?
>
> Haven't encounter this before. Which firmware are you using?

This is with firmware 10.1.467.2-1.

Avery