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Date:      Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:16:04 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
To:        Kim Culhan <w8hdkim@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: multi vap Multi-SSID with ath on FreeBSD 10-current
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hi,

Do you need 'bssid' on the ifconfig line?

Can you provide the output of ifconfig -a when you create the good and
bad configuration? I'd like to see the bssid's.

It's quite possible that the beacon timers and beacon slot allocation
is wrong, leading to issues.



Adrian

On 21 July 2012 13:46, Kim Culhan <w8hdkim@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems the max vap I can do is 3.
>
> Have been testing a setup with 2 vap running WPA2 and 1 running in OPEN mode.
>
> Adding 1 more vap in WPA2 makes things unuseable, and results in a
> duplicated wlanX bssid.
>
> There are usually 1 or 2 missing ssid's as received on a 80211n radio
> with 3 vap in WPA2 mode
>
> ssid's are reliable when running 2 WPA2 vap + 1 vap in OPEN mode.
>
> These configs are maybe not the best, I'll try any alternatives.
>
> In rc.conf:
>
> ifconfig_wlan0="channel 6 ssid Guest"
> ifconfig_wlan1="channel 6 ssid ap1"
> ifconfig_wlan2="channel 6 ssid ap2"
>
> wlans_ath0="wlan0 wlan1 wlan2"
>
> create_args_wlan0="wlanmode hostap bssid"
> create_args_wlan1="wlanmode hostap bssid"
> create_args_wlan2="wlanmode hostap bssid"
>
> hostapd1_enable="YES"
> hostapd2_enable="YES"
>
>
> hostapd1.conf:
>
> interface=wlan1
> driver=bsd
> logger_syslog=-1
> logger_syslog_level=0
> logger_stdout=-1
> logger_stdout_level=0
> dump_file=/tmp/hostapd1.dump
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd1
> ctrl_interface_group=wheel
> ssid=ap1
> ieee8021x=0
> wpa=2
> wpa_passphrase=supersecret
> wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> wpa_pairwise=CCMP
>
> hostapd2.conf is similar
>
> -kim



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