Return-path: Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.227]:4464 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752045AbXGDGNW (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 02:13:22 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h31so1997595wxd for ; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:13:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1ba2fa240707032313p7209117bycc8ee7335447afea@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 09:13:21 +0300 From: "Tomas Winkler" To: "Jiri Benc" Subject: Re: [WIP] mac80211: kill mgmt interface Cc: "Joerg Pommnitz" , "Cohen, Guy" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, "Johannes Berg" In-Reply-To: <20070702155309.5300ef7f@griffin.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed References: <394827.41199.qm@web51403.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20070702155309.5300ef7f@griffin.suse.cz> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 7/2/07, Jiri Benc wrote: > > Von: "Cohen, Guy" > > > 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. > -- > Jiri Benc > SUSE Labs > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >