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Re: [ipw3945-devel] [PATCH 1/5] mac80211: allows driver to request a Phase 2 key

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> At least the original d80211 design supported multiple SSIDs per BSS and
> yes, as far as kernel code is concerned, this was done in the identical
> way for both multi-SSID and dynamic-VLAN (RADIUS assigned). A new
> virtual interface is added for both cases and STAs are bound to the
> specific virtual interface based on MLME/RADIUS results.
> 
> However, I do not think I ever merged multi-SSID support into the open
> source version of hostapd, so it is quite possible that only the
> RADIUS-based VLAN assignment is currently used since multi-SSID support
> is inferior to multi-BSS support for number of reasons. Anyway, that
> does not change what mac80211 would support should one ever really want
> to enable multi-SSID support with a single BSS. I don't see much need
> for that, though, if one can use virtual BSSes.

Ah. I guess that requires hiding the SSID though?

johannes

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