Locating Group Client From Group Owner

[Jouni Malinen]

On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 11:36:32PM +0000, Padmanabha, Seshadri K. wrote:
> Wouldn't invitation request start group formation? I wish to ping the peer and hear a response without initiating any sought of connection. This is one of the reason I was looking at SD_Req. Correct me if I am wrong.

The peer behavior depends on configuration and state (whether the group
is previously known). There is not going to be any kind of group
formation at this point since the group has already been formed
(autonomous GO). If the peer has no knowledge of the group, you would
simply see a P2P-INVITATION-RECEIVED event with "unknown-network" on the
peer device. On the other hand, if you are using persistent groups, you
can configure the peer to not use automatic re-invocation (not to use it
is actually the default anyway) and instead, require higher layer action
to join the group.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA