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From:   Ramon Fontes <ramonreisfontes@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 27 Sep 2019 09:30:21 -0300
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Subject: Re: mac80211_hwsim: packets being transmitted through the monitor interface
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Yes, I agree that they are different things, but I can also see the
packets through the monitor interface created via iw. Is this expected
too?

On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 9:16 AM Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2019-09-26 at 22:54 -0300, Ramon Fontes wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've noticed that packets transmitted between two clients connected to
> > a hostapd AP are also transmitted (injected) through the monitor
> > interface. Is this expected behavior?
>
> You mean on 'hwsim0'? That interface is just for monitoring what's
> happening on the 'virtual air', so yes.
>
> > I can easily modify such
> > behavior by changing mac80211_hwsim, but it works only with hwsim0. On
> > the other hand, if I create a monitor interface via iw it doesn't
> > work.
>
> The two are completely different/unrelated things.
>
> johannes
>