From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Henning Rogge <rogge@fgan.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Virtual wireless network card for mac80211
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:30:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071114153041.GB6226@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711141620.15821.rogge@fgan.de>
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 04:20:15PM +0100, Henning Rogge wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 14 November 2007 16:08:39 schrieben Sie:
> > What is the situation that makes this interesting to you?
> I'm not interested in having a binary driver but in simulation of mobile
> networks with virtual machines. By placing a virtual driver into the mac80211
> layer the sollution would be totally transparent for the clients, even for
> applications with Radiotap headers and Libpcap.
> A central server would be connected to the userspace parts of the virtual
> driver and simulate connections between the VMs.
Even better -- a completely legitimate use for such a feature. :-)
Such a driver might also serve as a development tool for the mac80211
stack developers, and as a model for how drivers should behave when
interacting with mac80211.
In fact, I think Johannes Berg submitted this to the Kernel Newbies
project suggestions already:
http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects/Mac80211TestDriver
So, any aspiring wireless/kernel hackers out there?
John
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-14 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-14 12:16 Virtual wireless network card for mac80211 Henning Rogge
2007-11-14 15:08 ` John W. Linville
2007-11-14 15:20 ` Henning Rogge
2007-11-14 15:30 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2007-11-14 15:27 ` Johannes Berg
2007-11-14 15:22 ` Johannes Berg
2007-11-14 15:59 ` Mike Kershaw
2007-11-15 6:46 ` Henning Rogge
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