title: Will two devices connected to the same wifi, talk via the access point for communicating with each other?
body: <p>If two devices A and B are connected to same wifi via access point C, and if A pings B, will those packets be directly picked up by B or will they be captured by C and then retransmitted such that B can capture them?</p>
  
  <p>Using wireshark to capture packets shows that mac addresses in the ping packets are of A and B [not sure if C is even supposed to have one], thus if the packets are going via C, then C is analogus to a hub.</p>
  
  <p>A link to a primer on 802.11[?] that covers this aspect would be highly appreciated.</p>