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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:11:50 -0600
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Subject: Re: Multiple SSID on same phy
From: Greg Oliver <oliver.greg@gmail.com>
To: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
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On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> wrote:
> 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
>

Hmmm..  Are there that many network engineers that I clean the mess up
for?  I think they would not be visiting here...  Please give me an
example of "hiding" anything..  That just makes it all more useless..
Seriously real world examples that only a single ssid would benefit
from..

I can think of no reason you would not EVER use a unique name....

-Greg