From: Henning Rogge <rogge@fgan.de>
To: Mike Kershaw <dragorn@kismetwireless.net>
Subject: Re: Virtual wireless network card for mac80211
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:46:53 +0100
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Am Mittwoch 14 November 2007 16:59:58 schrieb Mike Kershaw:
> Depending what you're trying to do, I did patches for tuntap that went
> in a year or two ago that allow you to set the link type and write
> radiotap/80211 frames.  Kismet-newcore (it's in branches in svn if you
> care) uses this to replicate mangled frames back out to other userspace
> programs.

> http://svn.kismetwireless.net/code/branch/kismet-newcore/dumpfile_tuntap.cc
Okay, that seems to be what I was looking for. It's not as flexible as a full 
virtual network card, but it has all features I need, thank you.

(it seems that none of the online documentation I found for tuntap contains 
this capability)

Henning