I tried it and it worked just fine. My wondering of "why not" was based on the notion that I have some "loose" impression that an ESP8266 can be a Station, an Access Point or both. I understand Station ... that means it is a "true" TCP/IP device connected to the network. But the access point is still causing me some thought ... if the ESP8266 is an access point that seems to say that it is brokering connections from WiFi stations. It is here that I wasn't sure whether or not applications running on it in this mode could form and receive connections requests to other stations connected with it. If I then take my thinking a little further, we have the notion of the device being BOTH a station and an access point ... and this causes me pause. If I am running an application on the ESP8266 in this mode, if I try and form a connection ... which "network interface" would it use? The one through the "station" connnection or one through the "access point" connection.
NeilStatistics: Posted by kolban — Sat Sep 05, 2015 2:51 am
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