From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>,
libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libertas: monitor mode support for OLPC
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:54:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070710145402.GA7927@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1183720126.3818.122.camel@johannes.berg>
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 01:08:46PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Javier, Holger,
>
> > Why not do it this way:
> >
> > "iwmode eth1 mode monitor" turn's the device into monitor mode.
> > That's what by far the most drivers use. In this mode, the
> > device will send all frames to the host, e.g. all beacon frames.
> > After all, user space can filter:
> >
> > tshark -i rtap0 -R '!(wlan.fc.subtype == 8)'
>
> I suppose you really should be using cfg80211 to create and change the
> mode of new interfaces (and allow only one monitor and/or one STA
> interface). Then you actually get a sysfs file for free, and as a bonus
> it's the same one mac80211 uses :)
ACK
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
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2007-07-06 7:22 ` [PATCH] libertas: monitor mode support for OLPC Holger Schurig
2007-07-06 8:18 ` Holger Schurig
2007-07-06 11:08 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-10 14:54 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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