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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:54:40 +0300
From: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [ipw3945-devel] Few questions about the wireless stack
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Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to understand the relationship between
> wireless interfaces (wlan0, mon0,..) and wireless driver.
> 
> The most important question I am after, is what types of interfaces I can
> run simultaneously? 
> (I know that I can run station and monitor, but what are other  combinations ?)
> 
> I noticed that in monitor mode iwl3945 appends so called 
> 'radiotap' header to received packets, but
> it seems that mac80211 strips this header, and appends its own,
> for monitor interfaces, if so, then why to append it?
> 
> 
> And lastly, when you expect AP code to be released?
> 

I would be glad to hear about this, I have absolutely no free time to dig that out.


Maxim Levitsky