Wifi Direct GO Negotiation

Andrea Chittano andrea.chittano at hotmail.it
Wed May 14 04:19:08 EDT 2014


Thanks for your help.I' m developing an app for android which use WiFi Direct, and I need to set manually the GO intent for both device and then start the GO negotiation. My question is: how can I set the GO intent  of the D2 such that both devices perform GO negotiation correctly? 

> Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 15:00:53 +0200
> From: arend at broadcom.com
> To: andrea.chittano at hotmail.it
> CC: hostap at lists.shmoo.com
> Subject: Re: Wifi Direct GO Negotiation
> 
> On 05/13/14 14:03, Andrea Chittano wrote:
> > Hi, my name is Andrea.
> > I'm working on WiFi Direct and I found a thread about it.
> > I've some doubts about it.
> > Let's suppose we have 2 devices. Let's call D1 and D2.
> > Let's suppose D1 sends a request of connection to D2 (D1 doesn't known
> > D2 so no persistent connection there exist).
> > The first step that wpa_supplicant on D1 is to send a GO negotiation
> > request containing, among all,GO intent (of D1).
> > I want to understand how wpa_supplicant on D2 acquires the GO intent of
> > D2 in order to compare it with whichone sent by D1.
> > Can someone explain me this?
> 
> Both devices have their own go intent configuration in wpa_supplicant 
> configuration file. D2 sends own go intent value in the GO negotiation 
> response. The device with the highest GO intent will become GO.
> 
> Regards,
> Arend
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Andrea
> >
> >
> >
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