On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 12:08 -0800, Sam Leffler wrote: > To do what you describe I would create a monitor mode device, switch > channel, then destroy it. All the time you leave the station device > unchanged, though you probably need to disable it. This may not be > possible with all devices--i.e. for those that require different > firmware to do monitoring you will be restricted to a single virtual > device and/or operating mode.
Yeah, I agree with this, it is much cleaner to handle in the kernel. Think about the issues if you have a struct net_device that has 250 bytes of "payload" for the struct virtual_sta_device in it and you want to switch that to a struct virtual_monitor_device. Icky. johannes
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