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| ===== 5.5 Virtual AP ===== | ===== 5.5 Virtual AP ===== | ||
| - | If your wireless NIC supports it you might like to run multiple virtual APs | + | If your wireless NIC supports it you might like to run multiple virtual APs. As mentioned in Chapter 2 to be able to do this |
| + | you will need the "valid interface combinations" | ||
| + | If this is the case then you can add virtual AP like this | ||
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| + | iw phy0 interface add vap0 type __ap | ||
| + | or | ||
| + | iw wlan0 interface add vap0 type __ap | ||
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| + | this will create a new virtual AP, arbitrarily called vap0 on which you will need to activate a separate instance of hostapd as explained in Chapter 4. | ||
| + | Incidentally the type can be any of of these (as long as your wireless NIC supports them): | ||
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| + | * monitor | ||
| + | * managed | ||
| + | * wds | ||
| + | * mesh | ||
| + | * ibss | ||
| + | * __ap | ||
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| + | if you subsequentlt want to remove the virtual AP toy can terminate the hostapd running on it, optionally put the nick in down state and then tell iw you want to delete the virtual device: | ||
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| + | iw vap0 del | ||
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| ====== 6 Remote Administration ====== | ====== 6 Remote Administration ====== | ||
