On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Stephen Hemminger<shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a dumb questions. How does one setup multiple SSID's with > current (ie not madwifi) wireless API? > > 1. I assume need to run multiple instances of hostapd with different > config. Will that work? Yes. But the next question is how to create new wlan%d AP interfaces. That is answered below. > 2. Since IP address is attached to device (wlan0), how can each SSID > have different IP address? Use vlan's? The new 'iw' [2] utility could be used to create monitor interfaces or ad-hoc interfaces for example. We decided to only allow you to create an "AP" type of interface with a utility that handles the MLME in userspace, such a utility is hostapd. You will need to use the nl80211 driver with hosatpd [2]. We have documented the supported wireless modes in our wiki [3], I suppose that could use some updating. Anyway I believe AP-enabled devices right now only support creating 1 AP interfface. I believe the exception to this right now is ath9k through the private virtual interface stuff Jouni created, but to be honest I have to go and review that to make sure you can create 2 APs. Typically drivers (MadWifi) which supported multiple BSSs (therefore with two SSIDs) would allow you to do this by creating BSSes on the same channel. The ath9k virtual interface thing allows you to create interfaces on *separate* channels, and provides its own scheduler, which you can tune, for switching back and forth. [1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw [2] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/hostapd [3] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/modes > 3. Do vlan's work on wireless (ath9k)? Not sure what is required to support vlans. Luis -- 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
