Wireless Communication Between two APs?

[Jon Schuringa]

I'm building a self-organizing Ad-hoc network based on hostap. In order 
to automatically setup WDS-links between APs (which operate in managed 
mode), these APs need first to negotiate. The problem is that I can send 
but not receive packets (I sniffed on a client computer). So my 
question: can two managed mode APs within the same ESSID send packets to 
each other over the wireless link?

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Jon