Rishi Srivatsavai wrote:
> On 05/20/10 16:32, James Carlson wrote:
>> Rishi Srivatsavai wrote:
>>> But in dladm.c we have restricted the media to the following:
>>> 7900                 if (media != DL_ETHER && media != DL_100VG &&
>>> 7901                     media != DL_ETH_CSMA && media != DL_100BT)
>>> 7902                         die("%s interface %s cannot be bridged",
>>> 7903                             dladm_media2str(media, pointless), 
>>> links[n]);
>>>
>>> So I believe the code in dladm.c should be fixed to allow DL_WIFI. I will
>>> file a bug to make the change. 
>> I was expecting when I wrote the code above that wireless links would in
>> fact be DL_ETHER, because that's how they behave.  DL_WIFI (I thought!)
>> should be the raw DLPIv2 access to the underlying 802.11 (non-Ethernet)
>> data frames, as needed for seeing Beacon messages when wardriving.
> 
> Thanks Jim. I will file a bug to add DL_WIFI to the supported media in the
> above code.

So ... does that mean I was mistaken about what DL_WIFI does?

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James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <[email protected]>
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