Wireless Modes

For setting up the wireless modes see Howto & Recipes

iw list

has a section with Supported interface modes

AP ... Access Point Also called “master” mode.

Dynamic VLAN tagging support in hostapd. see Kernel: hostapd see ML

see mesh.80211s

radiotap headers package survey and injection

Outside Context of a BSS

P2P client

“GO” ... group owner

Alternative name: managed mode Mode when connected to an AP.

4address/4-address mode see: IEEE 4-address

• Mode list taken from include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
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