Re: WDS vs. multi-channel operation

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 17:02 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:

> >> If you're going to require them to be bound to an AP though, where's the
> >> difference to the current 4-addr AP_VLAN behaviour? It seems with that
> >> you could actually implement a bound-to-AP-WDS entirely in userspace
> >> since there's no requirement to actually go through the auth/assoc
> >> sequence for hostapd to add the station entry?
> > 
> > Oh and if you actually do need WDS-type interfaces, maybe their role
> > should change to be virtual like AP_VLAN-type interfaces?

> The difference between WDS and 4-addr AP_VLAN is that WDS is AP<->AP,
> not AP<->STA. I guess it would be possible to write some code to create
> AP VLANs + station entries for remote APs based on cooked monitor mode
> based discovery or some form of mgmt frame exchange.

I was thinking just pre-configure it as you have to anyway now?

johannes