On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:58:26PM +0900, Atsushi Onoe wrote:

 > I recalled another possibility discussed with enami-san.
 > 
 > Make existing wireless lan interface to handle raw 802.11 only and
 > create a dynamic adaptation layer to handle ethernet emulation.
 > 	ex) 
 > 	    ifconfig wi0 nwid SSID nwkey WEPKY up
 > 	    ifconfig wlan0 create wlanif wi0
 > 	    dhclient wlan0		# enable and use the interface
 > 	    tcpdump -i wlan0		# capture ethernet emulation
 > 	    brconfig bridge0 add wlan0	# add to ethernet bridge
 > 	    tcpdump -i wi0		# capture raw 802.11 frame
 > 	    ifconfig wi0 a.b.c.d	# should fail?

This certainly seems logical.. though, I'm wondering if it might be
really confusing, since other OSs don't do this.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>