Bug 86560

Summary:	RFE: networkd: support for creating additional nl80211 interfaces
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Tom Gundersen <teg>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	systemd-bugs
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Michał Górny 2014-11-22 09:31:38 UTC

Using net-wireless/iw you can duplicate wireless interface like this:

  iw dev wlp3s0 interface add wlp3s0_cl type managed
  iw dev wlp3s0 interface add wlp3s0_ap type __ap

Therefore making it possible to use the wifi adapter both as client and access point (where supported).

It would be great if networkd .netdev files had support for such duplication as well. As far as I can see, this is done via NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE command.

Comment 1 Tom Gundersen 2015-02-09 11:25:08 UTC

My feeling about this is that your wifi manager should be handling this externally to networkd. We do want some wifi-hookup support, but I don't think this is within the scope of networkd.

I can see why you would want it there, but for now I think the aim should be to let wpa_supplicant et al deal with that. Closing for now, but open to revisit in the future.

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