wifi power on/off

[Daniel Drake]

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at mikusj.com> wrote:
> If the system were to use several (static) self-assigned addresses, and
> "ifconfig eth0 down" was the way to terminate the use of the current IP
> address so that the next IP address could be activated - would it be
> desirable to have the hardware power off on "ifconfig down" ?

If you create multiple interfaces for the hardware it will do the
right thing, not powering down the hardware while an interface is
active.

Daniel