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Date:      Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:54:26 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
To:        Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@techwires.net>
Cc:        freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Feature-poor default WPA userland software (hostapd, wpa_supplicant) configuration -- is it inetntional?
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In-Reply-To: <201208241951.06694.bschmidt@techwires.net>
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On 24 August 2012 10:51, Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@techwires.net> wrote:
>> There's also likely a whole bunch of driver and stack things we need.
>> Eg, we need correct VLAN handling (which is fine, we SHOULD have it in
>> net80211, I just don't think it's been tested in a long time.) There's
>> also off-channel traffic support which I know we don't currently do.
>
> Na.. not VLAN over WLAN (well, yeah, that needs to be looked into
> also), hostapd is able to shove STAs into different VLANs (on the wired
> interface) based on Radius rules.

Right. I wonder what the "vlan" tag in the net80211 node is for. Is
that for VLAN over WLAN?

Yeah, being able to map a STA into a VLAN would be cool, but then we'd
have to figure out where to do the bridging and how to tell net80211
to do that mapping to vlan subinterfaces..


Adrian



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