Madwifi-NG, finally

By Ken | Published: April 5, 2006

Finally have gotten around to playing with the new codebase for the MadWifi driver, MadWifi-NG. Among the new stuff is the ability to have multiple virtual Access Points on a single card, and also have virtual clients and virtual access points on the same card. I have not gotten the later working but I have gotten the multiple virtual access point part working. This functionality has existed in commercial products (some based on linux) for a while now, but as
far as I know this is the first open source driver to support it. The other thing I would like to test in regards to commercial AP functionality is bridging virtual ap interfaces to vlan interfaces.

The simultaneous client and ap mode could possibly help with OPN as well.

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One Comment

  1. Cahit
    Posted April 24, 2006 at 6:44 pm | Permalink

    Ken- were you able to associate multiple regular client cards to the virtual AP card (single Virtual AP card) simultaneously? Were you able to get throughput on both of the clients downloading simultaneously from the Virtual AP?

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