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Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: HEADSUP: 802.11 vap support merged
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Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Randy.
> You wrote 23 ?????? 2008 ?., 18:48:54:
>
>   
>> the difference between a wlan and a vap is subtle.
>>     
>   I don't thinks, that difference between client and server is subtile
> :) wlan is AP OR client, and VAP is AP only. And many comuters will be
> configured as clients, with wpa_supplicant, not hostapd :)
>
>   
A "vap" is just an ifnet cloned from an 802.11 device.  These have a 
fixed operatin mode that can be ap, ibss, sta, monitor, ahdemo, whatever 
(mesh support eventually).  The terminology is unfortunately tied to the 
original motivation.

    Sam