Subject: Re: [WIP] mac80211: kill mgmt interface
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>
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Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:41:15 +0200
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On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 09:29 +0100, Andy Green wrote:

> I've converted the injection patches and packetspammer[1] to use this
> encapsulation method.  I added
>=20
> #define ETH_P_80211_RT	0x001B		/* Radiotap + 80211 encapsulation */
>=20
> to ./include/linux/if_ether.h to define the new ethtype.
>=20
> My results at the moment are that my encapsulated injected packets are
> dropped before reaching wlan0's dev->hard_start_xmit(), but if I send
> them to a second network interface for the same device configured into
> monitor mode, then they are injected correctly and go out on the air.
>=20
> Any ideas about where to look or what to do about the packets getting
> dropped on wlan0?

Possibly the reframing code simply doesn't udnerstand and thus kills the
packets?

johannes

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