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

Zhu Yi wrote:
> 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.

I don't personally have time to work on this at the moment, but
was hoping there might be someone available to do this feature
for hire...

It might make more sense to wait until after it is in the
official kernel as then it will be easier to do incremental
improvements...

Thanks,
Ben

> 
> Thanks,
> -yi


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Ben Greear <[email protected]>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


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