RFC: supporting multiple hostap instances in /etc/rc.conf

[Adrian Chadd]

On 17 April 2011 22:05, Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt at freebsd.org> wrote:


> Way to complex for my taste :)
>
> How about
>
> hostapd_enable="YES"
> hostapd_interfaces="wlan0 wlan1 .." # defaults to empty
>
> and then
>
> if [ -n $hostapd_interfaces ]; then
>        for interface in $interface; do
>                pidfile=/var/run/hostapd/$interface.pid
>                conffile=/etc/hostapd-$interface.conf
>                ..
>        done
> else
>        pidfile=/var/run/hostapd.pid
>        conffile=/etc/hostapd.conf
> fi
>
>
That sounds fine. Shall we submit a patch to the hostapd rc.d script to
implement that functionality?


Adrian