If memory serves me right, Dinesh Nair wrote:

> now that's real cool. i'd never experimented with using VLANs together with 
> the captive portal. however, i would support manuel's assertion that it's 
> much, much better to get a good external AP and then use that for the 
> 802.11 needs. hostap just doesn't cut it for me either, and i've had 
> varying levels of frustration with it.

Exactly, the point of my story was that this was an example of the
kind of flexibility that you couldn't get with hostap.

Cheers,

Bruce.