ENUM IEEE80211_OFFLOAD_FLAGS(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 enum ieee80211_offload_flags 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, page 9 — yes, this is the enum ieee80211_offload_flags(9) page and it is so much more chill than it looks. sit down, grab a strawberry drink 🍓, and let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

enum ieee80211_offload_flags — virtual interface offload flags. that's it, that's the whole vibe: flags that say which offload stuff your virtual interface is doing 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the whole enum, copy-pasted with love, do not touch the commas (they're quirky but they're ours) 🎀

enum ieee80211_offload_flags {
    IEEE80211_OFFLOAD_ENCAP_ENABLED ,
    IEEE80211_OFFLOAD_ENCAP_4ADDR ,
    IEEE80211_OFFLOAD_DECAP_ENABLED ,
    IEEE80211_OFFLOAD_ENCAP_MCAST

};

🦋 Constants 🦋

these are the actual members, and ngl each one is kind of a whole personality 👑

  • IEEE80211_OFFLOAD_ENCAP_ENABLED — tx encapsulation offload is enabled, periodt 🔥 the driver supports sending frames that mac80211 hands over as 802.3 frames. but — and this is the important part, bestie — it must also support sending 802.11 packets for that same interface. both. not one. 💅
  • IEEE80211_OFFLOAD_ENCAP_4ADDR — support for 4-address mode encapsulation offload 🫶
  • IEEE80211_OFFLOAD_DECAP_ENABLED — rx encapsulation offload is enabled ✨ the driver supports passing received 802.11 frames up to mac80211 as 802.3 frames. receiving arc, unlocked 🎀
  • IEEE80211_OFFLOAD_ENCAP_MCAST — tx multicast encapsulation offload is enabled 🌈 the driver supports sending multicast frames that mac80211 passed as 802.3 frames.
fr fr the ENCAP_ENABLED one is the sneaky one — both 802.3 and 802.11 sending for the same interface, no cap. don't sleep on that second sentence 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

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and that's the page, bestie!! 🎀 tiny little sign-off from the source, because we respect the credits: this one lives over at ./include/net, dated October 2026, and the footer says enum ieee802...ffload_flags(9) — yes the title got cutely truncated in the footer and honestly? iconic. slay. 💅✨ go read some mac80211 docs, ily, bye!! 🌈💖

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