[Wylug-help] peer to peer wifi programming

[gARetH baBB]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, simon wrote:

> Yes your understanding on ad-hoc networks is correct, they agree that
> one will act as a master. When this one moves out of range, the
> remaining renegoiate for the role.

No they don't, it's entirely a simple shared network - there is no 
"master".

One peer will start sending beacons, but other peers eventually do too 
given their turn (they wait a random delay and if there hasn't been a 
beacon that peer decides to have a turn) - no one peer is responsible or 
negoiates for a "master" role.