Re: Question on support for multiple STAtions with a single NIC?

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 11:11 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> Do any of the Intel wifi NICs support multiple (virtual) station
> interfaces?  I would want each station to have it's own MAC, and
> to show up like a regular station and/or ethernet interface.

No, it is not supported. But it is possible to be done in pure software.

> I have a somewhat hacked up madwifi configuration that supports this,
> but I'd like to move to something with a chance for making into
> the kernel if possible...
> 
> If it's not currently supported, but someone thinks they can
> add the support, I might be willing to sponsor such work.

It's a nice to have feature, please go ahead. It should be a generic
feature. Please consider to add it in d80211 stack (maybe with a few
callbacks supported from the drivers) and discuss it in netdev.

Thanks,
-yi

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