Re: [WIP] mac80211: kill mgmt interface

["Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@gmail.com>]

On 7/2/07, Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> wrote:
> > Von: "Cohen, Guy" <guy.cohen@intel.com>
> > > This is a required feature for Access Points (multiple BSSID).
>
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 06:38:00 -0700 (PDT), Joerg Pommnitz wrote:
> > And, just from reading the documentation, it seems to be supported by MadWifi for Atheros
> > based devices:
> >
> > http://madwifi.org/wiki/ngFeatures
> >
> > and note the "To create APs which share a single MAC address, use the -bssid flag when
> > creating the VAPs:"  remark.
> >
> > Even if no current mac80211 driver supports this feature, the API must not prevent this in the future.
>
> What are you talking about? Have you actually looked at mac80211? This
> is supported from day 0 of d80211.
>
>  Jiri
>
There is probably difference between running multiple hostapd
instances and running in multiple BSSID mode over one interface,
meaning that hostapad is running multiple instances of MLME. I guess
the original post was a bit confusing.
I'm not sure if and how current implementation of hostapd can do that,
but that's probably question for another mailing list.

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> Jiri Benc
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