From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ramon Fontes <ramonreisfontes@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mac80211_hwsim: packets being transmitted through the monitor interface
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 14:35:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6d62fe25faca3c000964e4f712bf3ba2d974d2f2.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8U23bdmJGARCT=TXKyfknhmz-V0qUJ8dj0Mhko-CkvW+uW1A@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20190927_143034_580324_D7D6C893)
[please quote properly]
On Fri, 2019-09-27 at 09:30 -0300, Ramon Fontes wrote:
> Yes, I agree that they are different things, but I can also see the
> packets through the monitor interface created via iw. Is this expected
> too?
The hwsim0 interface shows *all* packets on the virtual air.
A monitor interface created on one of the (hwsim or other!) wiphys shows
all packets seen by that device.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-27 12:35 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
2019-09-27 12:30 ` Ramon Fontes
2019-09-27 12:35 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2019-09-27 13:01 ` Ramon Fontes
2019-09-27 14:00 ` Johannes Berg
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