WDS with a FreeBSD access point

[Ondra Knezour]

Dne 3.4.2014 9:23, David Chisnall napsal(a):
> On 3 Apr 2014, at 08:21, Ondra Knezour <knezour at weboutsourcing.cz>
> wrote:
> 
>> Dne 3.4.2014 9:05, David Chisnall napsal(a):
>>> 'STA and AP VAPs'?  Can we go back to assuming that I don't know
>>> anything please?
>> 
>> STA - station, basically a client connecting to the access point AP
>> - access point VAP - virtual AP, on one hardware device can be
>> multiple virtual APs/networks running
> 
> My confusion is from the fact that I'm not sure why I have a VAP - I
> was assuming my configuration would have a single wlan device that
> would talk to stations and WDS remotes.  Is this not the case?

As I can recall (it is long time ago I was experimenting with the WiFi
on little larger scale), you always create at least one VAP, the
ifconfig xxx create wlandev yyy does just that - creates one virtual
device xxx on the top of the hw device yyy.

So if you want for example several diferent SSIDs, you will create
multiple VAPs for them and bridge them together. I am unable to try it
in near future to explain it better but hopefully you got the point.
-- 
Ondra Knezour