On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 12:45 -0500, Michael Wu wrote:

> Okay then, let's not use fake frames then. 

:)

> Let's make monitor interfaces 
> resemble monitoring ethernet a little more by reporting both RXed frames and 
> TXed frames. *BSD does this too and it makes running ethereal on monitor 
> interfaces much more useful. 

We do this right now afaik.

> TX frame reporting can be done simply in the 
> ieee80211_tx_status call, allowing the TX status to be reported on real 
> frames. 

I don't quite understand this comment. TX status reporting should go via
nl80211.

> Doing this is actually somewhat orthogonal to packet injection via netlink or 
> monitor interface, but if we are reporting TXed frames with a radiotap 
> header, we might as well allow frame injection with a radiotap frame for 
> consistency.

Well, it hasn't got much merit because for anything useful you'll need
to get state information on nl80211.

johannes