Re: Using NetBSD as a travel router

[D'Arcy Cain <darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On 01/02/2018 10:47 AM, David Young wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 09:28:54AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
>> The "travel router" use case is even trickier -- the device has to
>> participate in one network as a client while participating in another as
>> an AP.  Presumably on different channels.
> 
> There have been 802.11 adapters that let you operate both as client
> and AP on the same channel, but NetBSD would need the "virtual AP"
> improvements to net80211 (or the moral equivalent) to do that.

I have resigned myself to needing two wifi cards.  The question is, will
any 802.11 card operate as an access point?

-- 
D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost>
http://www.NetBSD.org/ IM:darcy%Vex.Net@localhost