cvs commit: src/sys/net route.h rtsock.c

[Brian Fundakowski Feldman]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 02:19:46PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 October 2004 01:01 pm, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:58:52PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 05 October 2004 12:50 pm, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > > > * Sam Leffler <sam at FreeBSD.org> [041005 12:48] wrote:
> > > > > sam         2004-10-05 19:48:33 UTC
> > > > >
> > > > >   FreeBSD src repository
> > > > >
> > > > >   Modified files:
> > > > >     sys/net              route.h rtsock.c
> > > > >   Log:
> > > > >   Add 802.11-specific events that are dispatched through the routing
> > > > > socket. This really doesn't belong here but is preferred (for the
> > > > > moment) over adding yet another mechanism for sending msgs from the
> > > > > kernel to user apps.
> > > >
> > > > I think one of these days it would be cool to be able to make a general
> > > > message socket, then ioctl a filter down onto it.
> > >
> > > It would be good to unify/generalize some of this stuff.  Warner pointed
> > > out devd has it's own mechanism (I'd forgot) and he intentionally avoided
> > > routing sockets because he wasn't sure there was enough overlap.
> > >
> > > For now this is a simple set of changes that will enable bringing over
> > > WPA support and fixing dhclient once I can complete the backport of the
> > > net80211 mods.
> >
> > Great!  Once that's done I can try to get WPA going in pff(4).
> 
> Not sure how pfil comes in here.  For WPA I intended to bring over Jouni 
> Malinen's wpa_supplicant and hostapd.  Both work with the net80211 layer on 
> Linux (with the Atheros driver) and both should be straightforward to make 
> work on FreeBSD once the net80211 code is updated.  pfil isn't anywhere to be 
> seen in this...

It's a driver:
<URL:http://green.homeunix.org/~green/prism54-driver/pff/>

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