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On 10/27/2012 10:19 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Yeah, how's hostap mode supposed to work in that case? The hostap
> interface doesn't go into and out of power save like stations can. It
> has to be ready to receive anything from any STA, at any point in
> time.

In my Intersil/Conexant days there was a marketing dude coming up with 
'time-slicing AP' and there was a way to signal STAs the AP was not able 
to receive. Just needed to be back in time to send its beacon. I chose 
to forget all about the bad idea.

Gr. AvS