--- wikisrc/Testing_new_wifi.mdwn	2021/11/02 15:53:04	1.3
+++ wikisrc/Testing_new_wifi.mdwn	2021/11/02 16:03:39	1.4
@@ -109,4 +109,6 @@ and you can further configure it with if
     aprisoft              e0:28:6d:59:cb:90    1   54M  94:0    100 EPS  WME WPA RSN
 
 
-This sounds a bit strange at first sight, but multiple networks (one per VAP) for a single radio do make sense. Here is the original paper describing the design: [FreeBSD wireless BSDCan 2005](https://www.bsdcan.org/2005/papers/FreeBSDWirelessNetwokringSupport.pdf)
+This sounds a bit strange at first sight, but multiple networks (one per VAP) for a single radio do make sense. Here is the original paper describing the design: [FreeBSD wireless BSDCan 2005](https://www.bsdcan.org/2005/papers/FreeBSDWirelessNetwokringSupport.pdf).
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+VAP is the term used internally in the code, it is meant to mean a virtual wifi radio. In the wifi world nowadays VAP would be a virtual access point, which is not quite the same thing as the virtualized interface we are talking about here. You can think of VAP as something similar to a VLAN, or a tap(4) or vether(4) connected to a bridge(4), where the real "wlandev" from the ifconfig create command line is the equivalent of the bridge.