On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:45:39AM -0800, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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. I'll send a patch instead. Keep in mind by not applying this you are allowing devices to not respect regulatory rules. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
