Re: Multiple SSID

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 08/12/2009 10:25 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Stephen
> Hemminger<shemminger@vyatta.com>  wrote:
>> I have a dumb questions. How does one setup multiple SSID's with
>> current (ie not madwifi) wireless API?

> Anyway I believe AP-enabled devices right now only support creating 1
> AP interfface. I believe the exception to this right now is ath9k
> through the private virtual interface stuff Jouni created, but to be
> honest I have to go and review that to make sure you can create 2 APs.

We're *still* working on virtualizing ath5k.  Over the last few days,
we have gotten this working pretty well, including virtual APs, virtual STAs with
WPA &  no security.  I haven't tested WEP lately.

We are chasing a few remaining buglets and optimizations currently.

I have a page up here to help get started using this:
http://www.candelatech.com/oss/vsta.html

NOTE:  The .31 tree mentioned there has a bunch of other patches in it
that we use for various purposes.  There is no clean way to get *just*
our wifi changes at this point.

We plan to submit the patches upstream, but there is a lot of churn in wifi code
so it will be a bit longer before we can get the patches tested on stable
code and then ported to the development branches.

I haven't tried out ath9k yet, but look forward to it once we get
ath5k nailed down.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com