From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] cfg80211: support an active monitor interface flag
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 14:17:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51A4A044.3030109@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369741810.8548.1.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
On 2013-05-28 1:50 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 13:01 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> An active monitor interface is one that is used for communication (via
>> injection). It is expected to ACK incoming unicast packets. This is
>> useful for running various 802.11 testing utilities that associate to an
>> AP via injection and manage the state in user space.
>
> Applied 1 and 2.
>
> Allowing MAC address duplication seems a bit strange, but I guess it
> simplifies things for users?
It is allowed only for non-active monitor interfaces, which previously
did not use ieee80211_verify_mac and ignores the configured MAC address
anyway.
- Felix
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-28 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-28 11:01 [PATCH v2 1/3] cfg80211: support an active monitor interface flag Felix Fietkau
2013-05-28 11:01 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mac80211: support active monitor interfaces Felix Fietkau
2013-05-28 11:01 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] ath9k: advertise support for " Felix Fietkau
2013-05-28 11:50 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] cfg80211: support an active monitor interface flag Johannes Berg
2013-05-28 12:17 ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2013-05-28 12:38 ` Johannes Berg
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