From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from toronto053.server4you.de ([62.75.220.53]:52364 "EHLO toronto053.server4you.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753321AbZDGTGn (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2009 15:06:43 -0400 Message-ID: <49DBA457.7060307@monom.org> (sfid-20090407_210648_244322_554EFD0F) Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:07:03 +0200 From: Daniel Wagner MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Berg CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: No local loopback for mac80211_hwsim test setup References: <20090403123822.GA26100@toronto053.server4you.de> (sfid-20090403_150647_912363_CB6A5CE6) <1238787032.11352.1.camel@johannes.local> In-Reply-To: <1238787032.11352.1.camel@johannes.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 14:38 +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote: > >> So my question is this possible what I'd like to do? If so, what's the >> trick to get it working? > > It's not possible locally, unfortunately, afaik. Ok, I found workaround for my problem. I'm using a VM with a small linux distro inside. The networking interface is bridge to the wlan interface. With this setup I can have some services running and have real traffic over the 'link'. Not really lightweight, but well, I guess hardware vendors like this approach. thanks, daniel