Re: Any /n NICs that support APs and multiple STAs other than ath9k?

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 10/06/2010 11:48 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 11:45 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
>> Your best bet is to test against mac80211_hwsim, that would rule out
>> any hardware. I think Jouni and Johannes have also a way to get the
>> devices to talk to each other. Perhaps some documentation of that on
>> the kernel Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/
>
> You can either use network namespaces, or you can now somehow add local
> routes (Patrick worked on that). But that's only needed if you need to
> test IP connectivity at all between the interfaces, as long as you just
> assoc etc. you don't need that.

Oh, I'm using all of Patrick's stuff, and my application is a traffic
generator, so I have no trouble generating traffic to/from interfaces on
the same system.

That said, we're hitting these problems before we ever try to start
traffic most of the time, so it's not so important.

Thanks,
Ben

>
> johannes


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