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Regarding the AP clients, could the AP send a power save or sleep
notification telling clients its going away for awhile, then come back
after the specified time?

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-08-19 at 12:00 -0700, Allan Matthew wrote:
>>
>> I operate an AP on one channel that talks to some set of devices.
>>
>> On another "channel" (maybe just different BW) I use packet injection
>> to send data to and from a separate device.
>>
>> The bitrate to the 2nd device (on the 2nd channel) is much lower than
>> that of the AP, and I'd like to get longer range out of it.  The idea
>> is that I use narrower bandwidth and fixed, low bitrates with control
>> over the retries to get really tight control over that link.
>>
>
> It might be somewhat feasible to set up the second one as a regular
> client/AP link as well, with a different channel context...
>
> However, the clients on the original AP might not be amused - their AP
> would mysteriously disappear every once a while, something they're not
> expecting (unless you restrict it to P2P GO/client operation)
>
> johannes
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