From: "Frank W. Miller" <frankwmiller@frankwmiller.net>
To: "'Johannes Berg'" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
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Subject: RE: wireless for manet experiments
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:57:23 -0700
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Thanks for the reply.  Is there documentation on the injection and monitor
interfaces you mention?  Where would I learn about how to paste in a tun
interface later on?

Thanks,
FM


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-wireless-
> owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Johannes Berg
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:17 AM
> To: Frank W. Miller
> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: wireless for manet experiments
> 
> On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 14:19 -0700, Frank W. Miller wrote:
> 
> > 1) disconnect the wireless interface from the IP stack and access it
> > directly from user space
> >
> > 2) later, I'd like to interpose the Layer 2 protocol between the
> > wireless
> > interface and the IP network stack.
> >
> > What is the best way to go about these things?
> 
> In addition to what Bob said, regardless of what you want to do I would
> probably just do it all in userspace with injection and monitor
> interfaces, and then for IP offer tun interfaces to the kernel again. At
> least for a prototype.
> 
> johannes