On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Pavel Simerda <[email protected]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "todd rme" <[email protected]> >> 2. Implement wifi-direct/p2p. This allows two wireless devices to >> connect directly to each other, securely sending files without going >> over a WIFI network. > > We have ad-hoc networking and you can use just any protocol over that. > Where's the documentation for this protocol, what's its purpose and why is it > specific to wifi while other protocols work over any link?
http://www.wi-fi.org/discover-and-learn/wi-fi-direct It is normally something built into the network card. The wireless chipset needs to have support for it. As I said, it is already being implemented in wpa supplicant. >From wikipedia: Wi-Fi Direct, previously known as Wi-Fi P2P, is a standard that allows Wi-Fi devices to connect to each other without the need for a wireless access point. This allows Wi-Fi Direct devices to directly transfer data between each other with greatly reduced setup. Wi-Fi Direct works by embedding a limited wireless access point into the devices, and using Wi-Fi Protected Setup system to negotiate a link. Setup generally consists of bringing two Wi-Fi Direct devices together and then triggering a "pairing" between them, using a button on one of the devices, or systems such as NFC. >> Android now supports it for sending video, and it looks like TVs will >> start implementing it for receiving video in the near future. People >> have been working on this in wpa_supplicant, but I don't know its >> status so this project may require some hacking there too. >> >> 3. Implement auto-detection of connection status. > > This is already supported roughly in a way you are describing it below. It is? I have tried connecting under these circumstances and nothing remotely like this happened. _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
