multiple wpa_supplicant on same interface

[Leonardo Maccari]

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 07:34:58PM -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 05:30:28PM +0200, Leonardo Maccari wrote:
> 
> > what is the technical reason why there can't be multiple wpa_supplicant
> > running on the same phisical interface?.
> 
> Why would you want to do this? Based on configuration, wpa_supplicant
> may be controlling the association and in all configurations, it is
> taking care of EAPOL processing. Having more than one entity trying to

as you might remember I'm trying to modify wpa_supplicant to make it work
in a mesh ad-hoc network. this means that every node should act as an
authenticator and supplicant (towards more then one authenticator, the
sourronding nodes). As this is getting quite difficult, in the meantime
I'd like to have an intermediate solution, giving every machine two nics,
one working as AP and one working as supplicant to sourronding nodes.

Ideally the best solution would be to have on just one nic, a virtual
interface working as AP and multiple vitual interfaces each one running as
a supplicant and connecting to neighbours.

> do this kind of tasks at the same time using the same resource (the
> network interface) would lead to interesting end results..
> 
> > is there a way to have different
> > supplicant on different virtual interfaces ?
> 
> Yes, as long as the driver supports this, wpa_supplicant works in this
> kind of configuration.

so with prismII nics and hostap driver would my ideal solution be possible
to implement? or at least the one with two nics?

ciao,
leonardo.

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