Re: [PATCH wpan-next 01/20] net: mac802154: Allow the creation of coordinator interfaces
From: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>
Date: 2022-08-29 02:31:37
From: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>
Date: 2022-08-29 02:31:37
Hi, On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 4:08 AM Miquel Raynal [off-list ref] wrote: ...
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I need to say that I really used multiple monitors at the same time on one phy only and I did that with hwsim to run multiple user space stacks. It was working and I was happy and didn't need to do a lot of phy creations in hwsim.Indeed, looking at the code, you could use as many MONITOR interfaces you needed, but only a single NODE. I've changed that to use as many NODE and COORD that we wish.
Be careful there, there is a reason why we don't allow this and this has to do with support of multiple address filters... but here it depends also what you mean with "use". I need to admit, you can achieve the same behaviour of multiple user space stacks and one monitor, _but_ you can easily filter the traffic if you do it per interface... - Alex