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From: Pavel Roskin <proski-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>
Cc: radiotap-rN9S6JXhQ+WXmMXjJBpWqg@public.gmane.org,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez"
	<mcgrof-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: outgoing interface field
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:29:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1213907351.3240.54.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1213906462.8967.110.camel-YfaajirXv214zXjbi5bjpg@public.gmane.org>

On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 22:14 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:

> > Besides, radiotap headers are designed to be transferable between
> > systems.  It should be possible to send frames with radiotap headers
> > from another system, possibly with a different endianness and
> > different
> > wireless hardware.  Encoding local data (VAP number) makes radiotap
> > headers system-specific.
> 
> This isn't designed to be ever saved to disk, it's for communication
> between userspace and the kernel when running an AP. We just happen to
> use radiotap for that to save inventing yet another interface.

Then there is very little point in discussing it.  I thought you were
going to suggest some elegant addition to the standard.  Piggybacking
the frames with some OS and system specific data is not.

> > It's funny, we are creating the rules that exclude us, and then we are
> > shopping around for sponsors.  We need exceptions for experimental use.
> 
> Actually, I just figured out that the OUIs have a 'locally assigned' bit
> like MAC addresses (well I guess MAC addresses inherit it from OUIs), so
> we can use that and assign "experimental" OUIs to ourselves as long as
> they don't clash within radiotap.

OK, fine.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-19 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-19 19:28 outgoing interface field Johannes Berg
     [not found] ` <1213903728.8967.92.camel-YfaajirXv214zXjbi5bjpg@public.gmane.org>
2008-06-19 19:41   ` Pavel Roskin
2008-06-19 19:44     ` Johannes Berg
     [not found]       ` <1213904654.8967.96.camel-YfaajirXv214zXjbi5bjpg@public.gmane.org>
2008-06-19 20:09         ` Pavel Roskin
2008-06-19 20:14           ` Johannes Berg
     [not found]             ` <1213906462.8967.110.camel-YfaajirXv214zXjbi5bjpg@public.gmane.org>
2008-06-19 20:29               ` Pavel Roskin [this message]

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