From 1219658f7d41d86e8877c45550a0dd3e878d00e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcel Holtmann Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 16:18:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] TODO: Add new task for automatically creating netlink monitor interface --- TODO | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index f85f6c6d..2345c1db 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -239,6 +239,22 @@ Wireless monitor Priority: Medium Complexity: C1 +- Create netlink monitor interface if it does not exist + + Currently the netlink monitor interface needs to be created manually + and also brought up. The iwmon utility could just automate this task + by using RTNL to find an existing netlink monitor interface, and in + case it does not exist, create a new one. + + It might be beneficial that when iwmon terminates that it then also + removes the netlink monitor interface again (in case it created it). + + Alternatively a command line option might be used for controlling + this behavior of creating and removing netlink monitor interfaces. + + Priority: Medium + Complexity: C1 + - Subscribe to all nl80211 multicast groups at startup It seems the nlmon packets are limited to actual subscribed mutlicast