From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:38911 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932879Ab0JFSvm (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2010 14:51:42 -0400 Message-ID: <4CACC53B.4050608@candelatech.com> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:51:39 -0700 From: Ben Greear MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Berg CC: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Any /n NICs that support APs and multiple STAs other than ath9k? References: <4CACA3D7.90108@candelatech.com> <1286390920.3655.402.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <1286390920.3655.402.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com