On Thu, 2019-04-04 at 22:38 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > The bridge mode is used only for testing by sending frames > > without de-muxing to some other driver such as a USB netdev so packets > > can be parsed on a tethered PC. > > Yeah, I get it, it's just done in a strange way. You'd think adding a > tcpdump or some small application that just resends the packets directly > received from the underlying "real_dev" using a ptype_all socket would > be sufficient? Though perhaps not quite the same performance, but then > you could easily not use an application but a dev_add_pack() thing? Or > probably even tc's mirred?
And to extend that thought, tc's ife action would let you encapsulate the things you have in ethernet headers... I think. johannes
