Hi Inaky, is it possible to release driver similar to ipwraw(WIFI card). Which will only decode the packets up to mac layer and can be captured. I mean just bypassing the protocol stack. Thanks, Sunil On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 14 May 2008, rajith pr wrote: > > Hi Rajith > >> We are a group a developers with WLAN expertise and we are planning to >> develop wimax protocol analyser for linux. >> As linux wimax project will be the first linux driver we would like to know >> if the we can capture management/control message from intel minisd card. >> Does the card have the capablities to send them to capture part of the >> kernel. Also, >> will promiscous mode in ethernet/wlan be supported?? > > It is not possible to implement a WiMAX analyzer using the Intel hardware. > > It will only deliver to the host the data frames that are directed to > it from the base station. This means you can't put it into a sort of > 'promiscuous' mode. As well, it takes care (and thus, doesn't export to > the host) of all the protocol handling. > > Thanks, > > -- > Inaky > > _______________________________________________ > wimax mailing list > wimax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxwimax.org/mailman/listinfo/wimax >
