Re: added new interface....

[Jay Fougere <jay@fougere.us>]

I figured out how to make a patch! ;)

here it is: http://fougere.us/patch-atheros-0.0.1-iptraf-2.7.0.diff.gz

Jay Fougere wrote:

> Sir;
>
> First of all, let me thank you for a great program!!! I have been 
> using iptraf for a couple of years and now I cannot live without it!
>
> This is what led me to my problem (and now a solution!). Over the 
> weekend I purchased an Atheros based 802.11b/g pci card (for those 
> that care, D-Link DWL-G520 rev B1). The driver 
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/) for this card is still in 
> beta and performance issues exist, hence a desire to monitor traffic 
> on the interface. The problem is that the card is listed as device 
> 'athX' rather than 'ethX' or 'wlanX' or whatever. Anyway, from what I 
> understand, it is still (basically) just ethernet.
>
> To make a long story short, I modified two of the source files to 
> support this interface. I am not a programmer (just a hack!) and I 
> don't even know how to make a patch so here is what I did:
>
> 1. Change line #40 in src/ifaces.c from:
> *    { "lo", "eth", "ath", "sl", "ppp", "ippp", "plip", "fddi", 
> "isdn", "dvb",*
> to:
> *    { "lo", "eth", "sl", "ppp", "ippp", "plip", "fddi", "isdn", "dvb",
> *so that the "ath" string is parsed from /proc/net/dev/
>
> 2. Add below line #82 in src/packet.c another entry as follows:
>
> *    else if (strncmp(ifname, "ath", 3) == 0)
>        result = LINK_ETHERNET;
>
> *This is of course based on the assumption that the packet definition 
> for the wireless is the same as that for regular ethernet. It does 
> appear to be working though =) I am going to do a little testing and 
> see if the reported traffic seems accurate. Please correct me if I 
> have made stupid/foolish assumptions.
>
> I apologize for not just sending a patch, but as I mentioned, I am not 
> a programmer.
>
> Thanks again for an awesome tool!!
>
> Jay Fougere
> jay@fougere.us