On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 13:41 +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote: > On 9/26/07, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > When iwlwifi scans in firmware, which MAC address does it use? What if > > you've added multiple virtual interfaces as you said you could support? > > > Scanning is STA feature so only one MAC address is used in that case. > namely iwl_rxon_cmd.node_addr Whichever address that will be, ok :) Though, actually, scanning is not just a STA feature is it? APs will sometimes want to do a quick background scan too, I think. > Do you know any use case to support STA with multiple MAC addresses? Not really, unless you can implement a TSF adoption per local MAC address. I guess you could turn off powersave and do the backoff algorithm a bit out of spec and get by with just one timer too. johannes
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