Subject: Re: Multiple SSID
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:35:37 +0200
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On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 10:25 -0700, 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?
> >
> > 1. I assume need to run multiple instances of hostapd with different
> >   config. Will that work?
>=20
> Yes. But the next question is how to create new wlan%d AP interfaces.
> That is answered below.

Huh, no, that's not really true. You can run one hostapd with multiple
BSSes, in theory, except driver_nl80211.c doesn't have all the code for
it yet. Should be fairly simple though to implement, just needs a list
of BSSes in that file.

> > 3. Do vlan's work on wireless (ath9k)?

Well, not in the 802.1q sense. VLANs exist our terminology as a way to
separate (by using different group keys and different local netdevs)
stations connected to the same BSS. This should work, with radius or
with static configuration, but I never tried.

johannes

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