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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:05:45 +0100
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
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To: Greg Oliver <oliver.greg@gmail.com>
CC: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
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Subject: Re: Multiple SSID on same phy
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On 2010-01-30 5:22 PM, Greg Oliver wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 10:14 -0600, Greg Oliver wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Johannes Berg
>>> <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>>> > I suggest you go public with your reply so you can be flamed and taught
>>> > wrong appropriately.
>>>
>>> Sorry - this gmail inefficiency sometimes gets me...
>>>
>>> BUT, please enlighten me when any of the 3 use cases would be
>>> beneficial to anyone not trying to (or "inefficiently migrating") hack
>>> into a network would occur.
>>
>> I don't think I can parse that. In any case, a possible use case would
>> for instance be a protected company network, along with an unprotected,
>> internet-only guest network.
> Hmmm, I would put the odds at that happening about 100,000:1 (if not more)
> 
> Yes, I know it is feasible, but HIGHLY unlikely.
Actually, with non-mac80211 drivers people have been deploying setups
like this for years. Now that this functionality is starting to
stabilize in mac80211, people are starting to use it there as well.

What you call 'HIGHLY unlikely' is actually very common ;)

- Felix