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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:14:32 -0600
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Subject: Re: Multiple SSID on same phy
From: Greg Oliver <oliver.greg@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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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.

-Greg

> On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 09:51 -0600, Greg Oliver wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Johannes Berg
>> <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 12:27 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> >> What are the restrictions (on ath9k) for multiple SSID with hostap
>> >> on same physical device. Should/will the following work:
>> >>
>> >> 1. Duplicate SSID's (different channels)
>> >
>> > Not really/well, wouldn't go there right now.
>> >
>> >> 2. Same channel but different SSID
>> >
>> > Yes.
>> >
>> >> 3. Duplicate SSID, same channel, but different encryption method
>> >
>> > "Duplicate SSID"? If you mean the same SSID and different encryption, I
>> > don't think that's supported. If you just meant two SSIDs with different
>> > encryption, that's doable by using two (B)SSIDs.
>> >
>>
>> There's no really honest use case for any of the examples presented.
>> "They" must want a head start on the next hackers conference..
>>
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