[OpenWrt-Devel] Extending iwinfo to set interface to monitor mode

Nick vincent at systemli.org
Tue Jun 11 12:29:34 EDT 2019


iw has no c library. So if you want to do automatically switching or
stuff like this, I directly would have to use nl80211.
Would be nice to split iw into a libiw and cmd iw or something like this.

Bests,
Nick

On 21.05.19 19:34, John Crispin wrote:
>
> On 21/05/2019 17:44, Nick wrote:
>> If I extend iwinfo to allow setting interfaces into monitor mode, will
>> it be excepted?
>> Or is iwinfo just for getting information for an interface?
>>
>> I use libiwinfo for abstraction for my own daemons.
>>
>> Bests,
>> Nick
>
>
> iwinfo is designed for introspection of the interfaces rather than
> configuration. you should use the iw tool for that
>
>     John
>
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