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Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 18:37:50 +0200
From: Reiner Herrmann <reiner@reiner-h.de>
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To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
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Subject: Re: mac80211_hwsim: Problem setting up communication
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Jouni Malinen wrote:
> 
> Linux IP/networking stack does not really seem to like connections
> between local interfaces unless this goes through lo.. Or well, at least
> I haven't figured out how to configure this without some kernel code
> changes. It would be kind of nice to get this working, but anyway, I
> made a small program for checking both unicast and broadcast
> communications for this type of use: hwsim_test from
> http://w1.fi/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=hostap.git;a=tree;f=mac80211_hwsim/tools
> 
> (it uses packet sockets bound to the interface and does not rely on the
> kernel IP stack)
> 

Thank you, it's working fine. Now I can also test with data frames. :)