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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ramon Fontes <ramonreisfontes@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mac80211_hwsim: packets being transmitted through the monitor interface
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 14:16:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49ded6ae8a23c29168ab7061235292ac7a853e0f.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8U23ZyFnYt+ePreGjFA2VFXnpu21SPthscvJhP-5xjQCb0OA@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20190927_035500_898243_B3F3D103)

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


  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-27 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-27  1:54 mac80211_hwsim: packets being transmitted through the monitor interface Ramon Fontes
2019-09-27 12:16 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2019-09-27 12:30   ` Ramon Fontes
2019-09-27 12:35     ` Johannes Berg
2019-09-27 13:01       ` Ramon Fontes
2019-09-27 14:00         ` Johannes Berg

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