<![CDATA[WLAN client-server peer network Design Concern]]>I'm trying to implement a WiFi peer network so that two or more users can share resources. AFAIK Qt doesn't provide any class to turn on WiFi implicitly and/or explicitly advertise WiFi connections for the client to search and connect through. Any Ideas?

Kind regards

]]>https://forum.qt.io/topic/69658/wlan-client-server-peer-network-design-concernRSS for NodeWed, 23 Sep 2026 08:14:16 GMTWed, 27 Jul 2016 01:14:42 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to WLAN client-server peer network Design Concern on Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:51:53 GMT]]>@herlarbee said:

Network Broadcasting

hi
I assume you mean something other that UDP?
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtnetwork-broadcastsender-example.html

This is often used to make auto connection.
Server sends "Im server, ip etc" on some port and all clients
listen to this port.
When they see the Datagram, they read ip etc. and
switch to tcp connection.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/339719https://forum.qt.io/post/339719Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:51:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to WLAN client-server peer network Design Concern on Wed, 27 Jul 2016 11:19:15 GMT]]>WiFi works in two modes. They are;

  1. Network Discovery
    Qt appears to offer support for this using QNetworkConfigurationManager class as such a client can search with a view connecting to the advertised IP and port.
  2. Network Broadcasting
    AFAIK Qt doesn't provide this functionality, and this is key for networking over LAN without the use of the internet.
    I'm curious if such a library, code snippet or code design pointers exist to fix this problem.
    So far I've not had any luck trying to implement one.
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