Bill Sommerfeld writes:
> as a practical matter I suspect that realistic 802.11-family devices
> will, for the forseeable future, need a dedicated hardware functional
> unit per active ESSID (or at least one per active RF channel)

Maybe.  Implementing radios as DSP software is cheap and very
flexible.  If there's a demand for the feature (i.e., make-before-
break roaming), I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen.

> so for now
> the best way to model this on the software side would be like the way we
> model multi-port cards: separate devices.

Yes, that seems like the direct we're driving.

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