-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mike Kershaw wrote: >>Looks very interesting, but I had in mind exactly the opposite (if I >>understand correctly): packets written to the virtual device would be >>received by the kernel, instead of going out to the radio. The kernel >>would think it had a real wireless device. So this would be independent >>of hardware (in fact no wireless hardware is necessary). > > I think the problem with that idea lies in the linktype handling. Linux > doesn't currently talk 802.11 -- all the wireless drivers turn the > packets into 802.3 before they hit the kernel layer.
I'm looking at the wireless development tree, let's say with the Devicescape stack. A virtual wireless device, using this stack, should be able to inject 802.11 frames. Such a "wltap" driver would be analogous to tuntap but at the 802.11 level. > One of the goals for the stack in the future is, I believe, supporting > 802.11 linktypes. Ok, in that case it could be even simpler. Marcus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFENC50XjXn6TzcAQkRAp1+AKDsFR2AHF59zB9oYa+/RuD61S/6OgCgqP4p nxDb1mRpQEgRRmW2JnBY9GQ= =xGf3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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
