Am 01.03.2017 um 16:35 schrieb Ben Greear: > That is actually not possible. The permanent MAC-Addresses of hwsim > >> radios are directly created by there internal ID, which is only >> increased for new radios and definitely not reassigned. >> >> But I would be happy, if this were possible, since it would make some >> simulation related stuff easier (currently we need to unload and load >> the hwsim module over and over again for every run). > > Ahh, you are right. But you can specify the wiphy name, and then you > can use that to query the debugfs to find the MAC addr, and then sync > your user-space with that info. > > It should also be easy enough to specify the MAC address when creating > the radio. > > And, you should be able to create virtual STA, AP, etc, with any > specified > MAC address, so the MAC of the radio really should not matter much? > That is another problem ... this won't work currently, since the frame delivery compares the receiver address with the permanent MAC addresses of all hwsim phys. I work as an idle task on patch, which makes this lookup (currently implemented as linear search) as a hashmap mapping an MAC to a wiphy struct , including scenarios with differing MAC addresses of vifs.
> Thanks, > Ben > kind regards Benjamin -- M.Sc. Benjamin Beichler Universität Rostock, Fakultät für Informatik und Elektrotechnik Institut für Angewandte Mikroelektronik und Datentechnik University of Rostock, Department of CS and EE Institute of Applied Microelectronics and CE Richard-Wagner-Straße 31 18119 Rostock Deutschland/Germany phone: +49 (0) 381 498 - 7278 email: [email protected] www: http://www.imd.uni-rostock.de/
