Discoverability and Connectability

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Thu Mar 3 06:21:41 PST 2016


On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 12:47:19AM +0000, Padmanabha, Seshadri K. wrote:
> I wish to better understand the options I have in WiFi-Direct to control Discoverability and Connectability ( Terms taken from Bluetooth ).  
> 
> 1) Can a Group owner say with one Group Client become non discoverable & non connectable to other peer devices? 

P2P GO will continue sending out Beacon frames, so it will be
discoverable through the lifetime of the group. The GO is not required
to authorize any other peer to join the group, though.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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