Subject: Re: mac80211, iwlwifi and packet injection
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>
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On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 15:17 +0100, Andy Green wrote:

> There is *a* device.  There are multiple logical network interfaces that
> are bound to that device.  I can spawn five logical network interfaces
> and still only have one device.  NM thinks I spawned five devices: that
> behaviour can be improved (by de-aliasing them via /sys or whatever I
> don't mind).

No, it can't really do that because you may actually want NM to control
multiple virtual interfaces if your hardware supports multiple STA
interfaces. NM should probably just be taught to not change the mode of
an interface all the time unless explicitly requested by the user.

Normal users will never have monitor interfaces. Hence, NM could display
monitor interfaces as "moni0 (monitor mode)" and only when you click on
them it asks "put into managed mode?" or something.

johannes

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