per-VAP vs shared ifconfig options

Adrian Chadd adrian.chadd at gmail.com
Sun Jan 3 23:39:53 UTC 2021


On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 03:08, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> Is there an easy way to tell which wireless ifconfig option is shared
> and which is per VAP?
> I mean, 'channel' is shared, 'ssid' is per VAP obviously.
> But how about the rest?
> Is that explicitly documented somewhere?
> Is there something obvious to search for in the source?

Hi! So, the easy answer is "look at ieee80211com versus ieee80211vap,
and the ioctl routines to see what option reads what." It can be a bit
more complicated, with how things are kept in sync with other things,
but that's a good start.



-adrian

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