Hi, > I'm developing an wireless emulator > (https://github.com/intrig-unicamp/mininet-wifi) which relies on > mac80211_hwsim for loading virtual wireless interfaces. In order to > get access points wirelessly connected I was think to enable WDS (in > addition to the well known mesh mode).
Why would you want to have WDS? IMHO if you really want to do it over wifi it makes more sense to use 4-addr AP/client. That at least gives you a reasonable configuration one might use in the real world - WDS can't negotiate HT/VHT for example, making it pretty much useless these days. > Then, I went through mac80211_hwsim and I noticed that I could make > it work with BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS) in mac80211_hwsim. That said, I > thought to submit this patch. > > ps. I'm not an expert in Linux Kernel and I don't know if something > else have to be done. It just worked applying this patch. It may work in hwsim, but I don't really want to encourage such usage. I'd even argue that we should just remove support for this from the kernel entirely, but that will probably not happen. johannes
