I'm not sure why we don't use the master device for packet capture - I can't think of any good reason for requiring a separate device. I would think the master device is the perfect place to do packet capture, and raw packet transmission.
Simon -----Original Message----- From: Johannes Berg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 2:57 PM To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Simon Barber; Christoph Hellwig; James Ketrenos; John W. Linville; Jeff Garzik; Patrick McHardy; David Kimdon; netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] d80211: use pfifo_qdisc_ops rather thand80211-specificqdisc On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 14:34 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > It makes 802.11 packet capture easier as well. Please don't invent > yet another network access object for the master device. Oh, but the master device doesn't get any packets you could capture. For that, you need to add a monitor interface. johannes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
