On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 17:02 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote: > >> If you're going to require them to be bound to an AP though, where's the > >> difference to the current 4-addr AP_VLAN behaviour? It seems with that > >> you could actually implement a bound-to-AP-WDS entirely in userspace > >> since there's no requirement to actually go through the auth/assoc > >> sequence for hostapd to add the station entry? > > > > Oh and if you actually do need WDS-type interfaces, maybe their role > > should change to be virtual like AP_VLAN-type interfaces? > The difference between WDS and 4-addr AP_VLAN is that WDS is AP<->AP, > not AP<->STA. I guess it would be possible to write some code to create > AP VLANs + station entries for remote APs based on cooked monitor mode > based discovery or some form of mgmt frame exchange. I was thinking just pre-configure it as you have to anyway now? johannes -- 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
