State os VAP support

Paul Schenkeveld freebsd at psconsult.nl
Fri Jun 7 11:04:47 UTC 2013


On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 10:30:45PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Oh, I found the 'bssid' option.
> 
> Try something like 'ifconfig wlanX create wlanmode hostap bssid mode 11g...'
> 
> See if the MAC addresses for each are different.

I seem to be able to change the bssid from a login session but trying
to do that from rc.conf fails and leaves the wlanX mac addresses set to
the ath0 address.

I haven't had the opportunity to document the behaviour yet and saw
you good-bye message so I'm afraid this one will go into the pr
database hoping thatsomeone will pick it up some day.

> If you still see the "Discard message X" then that's an orthogonal
> issue which we need to diagnose. I don't see that in my testing.

Haven't seen those messages.

> Adrian

Thanks for all your responses!

With kind regards,

Paul Schenkeveld


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