On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 11:23 -0800, Simon Barber wrote:
> I would
> think the master device is the perfect place to do packet capture,
Sort of. Since it'll be an 802.11 protocol thing, you won't be getting
any signal strength information etc. You really do need that.
> and
> raw packet transmissi
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:29:33AM -0800, Simon Barber wrote:
> 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 rig
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 trans
: 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 ra
