Re: virtual access poitns (ath5k/mac80211)

[Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>]

Hi,

Le Sunday 1 August 2010 03:53:13, Ryszard a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> i'm working on a project that requires i can create multiple access
> points on the one bit of hardware.  After an insane amount of googling
> and reading the lists the closest i've been able to come up with is
> something along the lines of:
> iw dev wlan0 interface add vap0 type __ap
> iw dev wlan0 interface add vap1 type __ap
> 
> then using macchanger to assign unique mac addresses.
> 
> I've also seen something from March 2009
> (http://lwn.net/Articles/321690/) that hints at the functionality
> available with the ath9k which gave me a bit of hope!
> 
> My question is, is it possible to create multiple virtual access
> points with my hardware ( Atheros Communications Inc. AR5413 802.11abg
> ) and the ath5k/mac80211 drivers (or is there some other method to
> achieve what i'm after) ?  i'm not too fussed about different
> channels, but different SSID's and WPA keys are a requirement for the
> project.

There is support for creating virtual interfaces using iw and ath5k here: 
http://www.candelatech.com/oss/vsta.html

I really wish someone could submit this mainline, unfortunately it is pretty 
hard to isolate the commits in this tree which are implementing virtual 
interfaces support.

Ben, Patrick, could you rebase your patches on top of wireless-testing and 
send them for review/testing?
--
Florian