I should elaborate - if 802.11 is made into a real protocol - then raw packet capture works correctly on the master device. (raw sockets opened on the device see all frames before they are passed to the protocol). This is the right way to go.
Simon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Barber Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 11:24 AM To: Johannes Berg; Stephen Hemminger Cc: Christoph Hellwig; James Ketrenos; John W. Linville; Jeff Garzik; Patrick McHardy; David Kimdon; netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: [patch] d80211: use pfifo_qdisc_ops rather thand80211-specificqdisc I'm not sure why we don't use the master device for packet capture - I can't think of any good reason for requiring a separate device. I would think the master device is the perfect place to do packet capture, and raw packet transmission. Simon -----Original Message----- From: Johannes Berg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 2:57 PM To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Simon Barber; Christoph Hellwig; James Ketrenos; John W. Linville; Jeff Garzik; Patrick McHardy; David Kimdon; netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] d80211: use pfifo_qdisc_ops rather thand80211-specificqdisc On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 14:34 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > It makes 802.11 packet capture easier as well. Please don't invent > yet another network access object for the master device. Oh, but the master device doesn't get any packets you could capture. For that, you need to add a monitor interface. johannes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
