HEADSUP: 802.11 vap support merged

[Brooks Davis]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:15:21PM +0400, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Sam.
> You wrote 23 ?????? 2008 ?., 20:18:00:
> 
> >>> the difference between a wlan and a vap is subtle.
> >>>     
> >>   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 :)
> >>
> >>   
> > A "vap" is just an ifnet cloned from an 802.11 device.  These have a 
> > 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 :)
> 
> > (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
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