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Date:      Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:48:44 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Jacques.Caron@IPsector.com
Cc:        jetman516@hotmail.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How Is Host AP Mode Going ?
Message-ID:  <20020919.094844.28087201.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20020919172534.03667bd8@pop.mail.yahoo.com>
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            Jacques Caron <Jacques.Caron@IPsector.com> writes:
: Hi,
: 
: BTW, are there any plans regarding porting all the updates Jouni made to 
: the Linux version of hostap (including per-client keys, 802.1X, use of a 
: user-mode daemon...), etc? Is somebody working on it already?

nope.

: Alternatively, is anybody working on having a generic "802.11 AP" netgraph 
: node? This would require the driver to hand over all 802.11 frames to that 
: node, and would provide equivalent functionality to the above, and probably 
: more (one hook per association, for instance). One could also imagine an 
: 802.1X netgraph node...
: 
: If nobody is working on that, looks like I should try to start finding out 
: how kernel programming works ;->

Well, there's some NetBSD code that's a little bit of a start on
this.  I'd like to do something we can share between the BSDs, which
makes a pure netgraph node a little undesirable.

But at the moment, I'm cranking on NEWCARD/devd

Warner

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