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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: do not TX injected frames when not allowed

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On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 10:52 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Monitor mode is able to TX by using injected frames. We should
> not allow injected frames to be sent unless allowed by regulatory rules.
> Since AP mode uses a monitor interfaces to transmit management frames
> we have to take care to not break AP mode as well. Since hostapd
> respects 'no-ibss|radar' flags we can make use of the same policy
> statically for checking when to disable injected frames. Once AP
> mode supports radar detection we should somehow distinguish a
> regular monitor mode from an AP's monitor interface.

Any proposal for "somehow"? I'm not all that worried about packet
injection here.

johannes

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