Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 08:31:36 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_ath raw 802.11 packet injection patch when in monitor mode Message-ID: <449D5AD8.5090003@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <20060624124111.GA26914@shorty.sorbonet.org>
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Andrea Bittau wrote: > I think it would be useful to have 802.11 packet injection support in the > mainstream driver. This would allow people, amongst other things, to run > user-land access points and clients. Below is a crude patch for doing so. The > only problem is that ACKs are not sent in time. I know a fix, but it's a bit of > a hack and a better solution is needed. I've tried contacting Sam but failed > [e-mail bounced]. Hopefully he will see this, and if he's interested, I could > make the patch better. > <...patch removed...> Thanks for the contribution. Sending packets in monitor mode is a mistake; you should use adhoc demo mode. Future versions of the hal are likely to disallow packet transmission. I've had changes to send 802.11 frames via bpf for a long time (12+ months). They go through the net80211 layer and are device independent. I'll try to clean 'em up so you can try them. Samhome | help
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