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Subject: Re: netmap on wireless NIC
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 08:40:37 -0500
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On Jun 5, 2013, at 7:50 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 04/06/2013 23:06, Chao Xu wrote:
>> Hello,
>>=20
>> Is it possible to hacking some wireless NIC driver (carl9170 for example)=

>> to enable netmap on it? I guess this is possible because wireless drivers=

>> also manage packets using ring buffers. My goal is to access the raw
>> packets as quickly as possible, not to achieve high data rate. Is there a=
ny
>> argument against doing so? Thank you.
>=20
> Would using netmap on a wireless NIC make sense at all? There is no way th=
at current wifi technologies could achieve the PPS rates at which you would n=
eed netmap, and there already are other ways (e.g. pcap) to
> access raw packets.

802.11ad and 8 antenna 802.11ac could pass 7gbps, in theory.=20