[Olsr-users] DLEP Radio test: Can mac80211_hwsim help?

[Vigneswaran R]

On 12/15/2014 02:24 PM, Henning Rogge wrote:
> Which means you get a wifi, but it delivers no metadata you could get into DLEP.
>
> So someone would need to extend 80211 hwsim to allow setting nl80211
> metadata parameters that can be queried through the normal interfaces
> later.

Ok. Now, I am getting the following information (after running hostapd 
on one interface and wpa_supplicant on another interface).

$ iw wlan0 station dump
Station 02:00:00:00:01:00 (on wlan0)
     inactive time:    68 ms
     rx bytes:    962
     rx packets:    10
     tx bytes:    528
     tx packets:    4
     tx retries:    0
     tx failed:    0
     signal:      -30 dBm
     signal avg:    -30 dBm
     tx bitrate:    1.0 MBit/s
     rx bitrate:    9.0 MBit/s
     authorized:    yes
     authenticated:    yes
     preamble:    short
     WMM/WME:    no
     MFP:        no
     TDLS peer:    no

$ iw wlan1 station dump
Station 02:00:00:00:00:00 (on wlan1)
     inactive time:    7108 ms
     rx bytes:    75246
     rx packets:    1350
     tx bytes:    1009
     tx packets:    10
     tx retries:    0
     tx failed:    0
     signal:      -30 dBm
     signal avg:    -30 dBm
     tx bitrate:    9.0 MBit/s
     rx bitrate:    1.0 MBit/s
     authorized:    yes
     authenticated:    yes
     preamble:    long
     WMM/WME:    no
     MFP:        no
     TDLS peer:    no

ref: 
<http://w1.fi/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=hostap.git;a=tree;f=mac80211_hwsim/tests/0001-wpa2-psk;h=2881fa22390d3c7bd7b0045cfd2360cd8b638826;hb=HEAD>

Vignesh

>
> Henning
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Vigneswaran R <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>> On 12/15/2014 01:21 PM, Henning Rogge wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> what do you get as output with "iw <hwsim-wlan> station dump" for a
>>> simulated interface?
>>
>> Not getting any output for the above command.
>>
>> However, 'iw wlan1 info' gives the following output.
>>
>> Interface wlan1
>>      ifindex 74
>>      wdev 0x100000001
>>      addr 02:00:00:00:01:00
>>      type managed
>>      wiphy 1
>>
>> Vignesh
>>
>>
>>> Henning
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 6:29 AM, Vigneswaran R <(spam-protected)>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Can mac80211_hwsim module be used for simulating Radio device for DLEP
>>>> test?
>>>>
>>>> Just modprobe'ing the module created/simulated two wireless interfaces. I
>>>> am
>>>> exploring this further.
>>>>
>>>> ref: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/mac80211_hwsim
>>>>
>>>> Vignesh
>>>>
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