I think it would be nice to have ifconfig for all interface configuration as they have done in openbsd, it's better to have one tool for all. What do you think ? 2007/2/14, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Hi, I've been playing a bit with parsing a modified nl80211 header file to get a tool and http://git.sipsolutions.net/pynl80211.git/ is what I currently have. It doesn't actually send netlink messages yet but that ought to be trivial to add, I'm too lazy right now to look up all the exact binary stuff. Python does have a "struct" module that can be used to pack things into binary so it's really easy :) Anyway. The repository contains a modified nl80211.h and the tool relies on a lot of things to be correct in it, see parse.py. Examples: $ ./wificonf.py help configure ./wificonf.py configure ifindex [ssid=...] [transmit_power=...] [frag_threshold=...] [channel=...] [rx_sensitivity=...] ifindex: interface name or index ssid: string (1-32 bytes) transmit_power: u32 frag_threshold: u32 channel: u32 rx_sensitivity: u32 $ ./wificonf.py help set_roaming_control ./wificonf.py set_roaming_control ifindex roaming_control ifindex: interface name or index roaming_control: kernel, userspace $ ./wificonf.py configure eth1 ssid="my ssid" channel=7 frag_threshold=580 TODO: construct a netlink message with command number 9 and the following attributes 1: 4 18: 'my ssid' 20: 580 12: 7 $ ./wificonf.py set_fixed_bssid eth1 0:1:2:3:4:ff TODO: construct a netlink message with command number 17 and the following attributes 1: 4 15: '\x00\x01\x02\x03\x04\xff' (ifindex is looked up via sysfs: /sys/class/net/<name>/ifindex) Obviously parsing the response netlink message is missing too :) Included also is a check shell script that will use wificonf's parser to make sure the header file was parsed correctly wrt the numbers of the constants (since I don't have a C parser built into it.) johannes
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