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authorVadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>2017-07-17 09:06:36 +0300
committerTobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>2017-07-17 09:15:46 +0200
commit3261379f19ad0da4c32e8ab5654a84bf5d17282a (patch)
tree6a8663871fb9b7987e24b468d81a971cb76e8f0f /trafgen.8
parent551aa0ee996132e443b5d12cbb6f114ac9aabcd3 (diff)
trafgen: Delegate creation of rfraw to dev_io API
Simplify a bit of creation rfraw device by delegating it to the dev_io API, also in case the output device is pcap file the --rfraw option sets the link type to ieee80211 radio tap. Signed-off-by: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
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@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ a bigger memory footprint for the ring buffer.
In case the output networking device is a wireless device, it is possible with
trafgen to turn this into monitor mode and create a mon<X> device that trafgen
will be transmitting on instead of wlan<X>, for instance. This enables trafgen
-to inject raw 802.11 frames.
+to inject raw 802.11 frames. In case if the output is a pcap file the link type
+is set to 127 (ieee80211 radio tap).
.PP
.SS -s <ipv4>, --smoke-test <ipv4>
In case this option is enabled, trafgen will perform a smoke test. In other