Re: [Ieee80211-devel] eth0 vs. wlan0 [was Re: ieee80211 patches]

[Mike K. <dr...@ki...>]

> Unfortunately, if it stays pretending it is ethernet adapter, there's
> no way to see wireless managment packets with wlan... that seems
> wrong.

This isn't true at all.  There are numerous drivers which use ethX and
can still be used to sniff management frames (such as the ipw drivers,
the orinoco drivers, etc). =20

Every device has an arp link type that indicates what sort of frames=20
are on it, such as IEEE raw, IEEE-PRISM/AVS, Radiotap, blah blah blah.
This is handled exactly the same if its call ethX, wlanX, athX, it
doesn't matter.

Theres a certian amount of user confusion by not making the wireless
interfaces blatantly wireless, but it doesn't hurt functionality at all.

-m

--=20
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