I am working on a WiFi virtual station emulator, and need a bastardized version of a bridge to make it work.
The basic idea is to have a linux based AP that supports virtual wifi clients (it actually won't be acting as an AP at all). There are proprietary stacks that support this, and hopefully some open-source ones sometime soon. I want to generate traffic on regular Linux machines (or windows, for that matter) connected to the AP on the wired ethernet interface. My plan is to have the regular traffic generating machines set their MAC addresses to that of a particular wifi virtual station. The AP will act like a bridge/switch according to these rules: If a packet enters the wifi device, it will be sent down the wired ethernet interface un-changed. If a packet enters the wired device, the wifi device with the same MAC as the source-MAC in the ethernet frame will be used to transmit the packet wirelessly. The part that appeals to me is that there will be no routing or advanced bridging hackery on the AP, and all the clever routing, arping, etc can happen on the end stations. So the big question is: Would this be something of general interest? If not, I can go on my merry way hacking and slashing. If it is of general interest, then let's discuss the best way to implement it (ie, where to tie into the stack, whether to try to reuse any existing bridging logic, etc) Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
