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Date:      Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:38:27 +0700
From:      Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multiple SSID with WiFi adapter and hostapd?
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Olivier,

> I have a question for short (since I failed, possibly due to
> configuration inabilities of myself): is it possible to have multiple
> SSID on the very same WiFi hardware adapter (TP-Link Atheros based
> type)?

Yes. DD-WRT does that very well.

Bests,

Olivier

>  Idea is, to have pseudo device wlan0 assigned to a SSID for the
> internal use and another SSID for guests, which is not allowed to access
> internal server infrastructure. I tried another pseudo device "wlan1"
> and configured it the very same way in /etc/hostapd.conf, but this failed.
>
> Please set me CC/email me, I do not subscribe the list.
>
>
> Thanks in advance and regards,
>
> oliver
>



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