Rates and kismet captures
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People keep asking about missing packets and how to pick drivers that can keep up with
extremely high rate networks.

Sort of an answer:
Prism54 card
Kernel 2.6.14 kernel drivers
Kismet-stable-devel
Pentium-M 1.5ghz

Kismet can capture 5000 packets per second from a client doing 3 mbytes/sec sustained, when
locked onto the active channel, at about 10% CPU load.  While I haven't gone into the logs
fully, this appears to be capturing at saturation.

Hope that helps people with questions.