From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 18:41:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A156E106564A; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:41:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (cl-162.ewr-01.us.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:4830:1200:a1::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 035BA8FC1F; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:41:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m3NIfRsj046852; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:41:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: (from brooks@localhost) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m3NIfRDk046851; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:41:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brooks) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:41:27 -0500 From: Brooks Davis To: Lev Serebryakov Message-ID: <20080423184127.GB46081@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <480D6667.4020509@errno.com> <20080422200616.GA44541@tirith.brixandersen.dk> <480E79F9.40303@freebsd.org> <480F358A.2000009@psg.com> <20080423142628.GA44288@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <480F4C56.7070009@psg.com> <11410077632.20080423195800@serebryakov.spb.ru> <480F6138.7000803@freebsd.org> <29742224.20080423211521@serebryakov.spb.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <29742224.20080423211521@serebryakov.spb.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (lor.one-eyed-alien.net [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:41:28 -0500 (CDT) Cc: Randy Bush , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Sam Leffler Subject: Re: HEADSUP: 802.11 vap support merged X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:41:16 -0000 --GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:15:21PM +0400, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, Sam. > You wrote 23 ?????? 2008 ?., 20:18:00: >=20 > >>> the difference between a wlan and a vap is subtle. > >>> =20 > >> I don't thinks, that difference between client and server is subtile > >> :) wlan is AP OR client, and VAP is AP only. And many comuters will be > >> configured as clients, with wpa_supplicant, not hostapd :) > >> > >> =20 > > A "vap" is just an ifnet cloned from an 802.11 device. These have a=20 > > fixed operatin mode that can be ap, ibss, sta, monitor, ahdemo, whatever > I understand this. And, IMHO, it is exact reason to not use "vap" as > part of RC variables :) >=20 > > (mesh support eventually). The terminology is unfortunately tied to the > > original motivation. > Maybe, terminology in scripts can be more generic and neutral? `wlan'? Sam and I discussed this and I'm going to change the variable names to wlan(s)_*. -- Brooks --GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFID4LXXY6L6fI4GtQRAhZdAJ4sxz24/rjaOd/0tMunSPgthKCPqwCg5w+M GKrnAxKh7vDKtxQAAmZwh5w= =p+Sr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN--