Hello Jouni, Le Tuesday 03 March 2009 18:23:25 Jouni Malinen, vous avez écrit : > When using virtual wiphys, the APs that the virtual interfaces are > associated with do not need to be on the same channel. One of the > wiphys could also be used with hostapd to bring up an AP. However, it > should be noted that most client implementation do not exactly like > the AP disappearing all the time, so using a virtual station interface > on another channel at the same time may not be that good of an idea > for most use cases now. This will hopefully improve somewhat with > future optimizations. > > > It would be useful to hear what others think about this sort of > functionality and how this should be integrated with Linux, including > the user space interface, applications managing the virtual interface > functionality, and user interface that the end users would see. This > is still quite an early step in the progress, but the goal here is to > get this functionality into mature state and provide something that > makes it easier to use wireless LAN in general for connecting devices > in various scenarios. All feedback would be welcome! I am only commenting from a user point of view this feature. This definitively is very useful since quite a lot of people stick to madwifi instead of using ath5k or ath9k since there was not real support before this patch for virtual interfaces. One thing that I did not like with wlanconfig and I would like not to find with mac80211/cfg80211 is the incompatibility of some setups (i.e: AP should be created first, STA interface later with nosbeacon), not sure this is possible, but if it is, one should be able to add a virtual interface without knowing the state of the other interfaces before. I really like the way we can create mesh point interfaces with iw, so this could be the user interface to configure virtual interfaces, say like this : iw dev wlan0 interface add sta0 type sta iw dev wlan0 interface add ap0 type master On a broader perspective, I really hope other drivers will become capable of supporting virtual interfaces as well. Thank you for your work. -- Best regards, Florian Fainelli Email : florian@xxxxxxxxxxx http://openwrt.org ------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
