From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Wagner Subject: Re: No local loopback for mac80211_hwsim test setup Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:07:03 +0200 Message-ID: <49DBA457.7060307@monom.org> References: <20090403123822.GA26100@toronto053.server4you.de> (sfid-20090403_150647_912363_CB6A5CE6) <1238787032.11352.1.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Johannes Berg Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1238787032.11352.1.camel-YfaajirXv2244ywRPIzf9A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html