Hi Oliver,
> On 26.02.2019 12:04, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
>
> Hi Julius,
>
(..)
>
> The reason for IFF_ECHO was, that the data frame which is sent onto the wire
> (by one application) is not visible to all the other applications on the same
> (local) host. Therefore a successful transmission on the wire triggers the
> 'echo' of the sent content into the local host.
>
Thank you for the explanation - I can adjust the comment, if you like to.
> So what are you getting back after you enabled IFF_ECHO on your mac80211
> device?
>
> Is it just a 'status' about a sent packet, or is it the packet ('full
> content') itself?
We are actually getting back the full content of the packet. So it matches the
behaviour of the 'echo' in CAN.
>
> Regards,
> Oliver
>
Many thanks,
Julius
