From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] [Fwd: State of the Union: Wireless]
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 09:02:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43BEA2B2.7060104@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601061200.59376.mbuesch@freenet.de>
Michael Buesch wrote:
> How would the virtual interfaces look like? That is quite easy to answer.
> They are net_devices, as they transfer data.
> They should probaly _not_ be on top of the ethernet, as 80211 does not
> have very much in common with ethernet. Basically they share the same
> MAC address format. Does someone have another thing, which he thinks
> is shared?
If you can make the virtual devices look like ethernet, I believe a lot of other things
will just work w/out hacking, including user-space apps that think they
know exactly what an ethernet frame/device looks like.
The only things I think of that won't work like ethernet is the ability to
change the local MAC address or go into promisc mode. And, it's always possible
that future wifi hardware will support that as well. Either way, the current
API handles this fine: the requests to change will just fail with a convenient error.
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1136541243.4037.18.camel@localhost>
2006-01-06 11:00 ` [Bcm43xx-dev] [Fwd: State of the Union: Wireless] Michael Buesch
2006-01-06 11:38 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-01-06 11:45 ` Michael Buesch
2006-01-06 12:10 ` [Bcm43xx-dev] " Marcel Holtmann
2006-01-06 12:46 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-01-06 18:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-01-06 22:16 ` David Lang
2006-01-06 22:18 ` David S. Miller
2006-01-09 18:24 ` Ingo Oeser
2006-01-06 22:22 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-01-12 14:20 ` Harald Welte
2006-01-06 16:12 ` Feyd
2006-01-06 16:25 ` Johannes Berg
2006-01-06 17:02 ` Ben Greear [this message]
[not found] <5rXDU-5s4-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <5rXDU-5s4-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-01-06 22:57 ` Bodo Eggert
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