Hi!
> > There are good reasons to have wireless interfaces as wlanX, with
> > tcpdump showing wireless packetes, etc; but current patches name it
> > ethX, and you get plain ethernet packets on tcpdump. Are we going to
> > keep showing wireless interfaces as ethernet ones forever, or do we
> > plan to switch to wlanX? If we decide to switch, we should either
>
> IMHO, We have already used ethX for all the time that this driver has been
> used. Therefore, most likely, if we change from eth1 to wlan0, we are going
> to mix up more people than we can mix new people.
>
> We had a long talk about this in the IPW ML and at the end we considered the
> wireless adapter an ethernet interface too, so we just sticked with ethX.
>
> I hope it stays as ethX.
Unfortunately, if it stays pretending it is ethernet adapter, there's
no way to see wireless managment packets with wlan... that seems
wrong.
Pavel
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