A communication method and a device, where the method includes receiving, by a first device, a first message sent by a second device using a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, where the first message includes address information of the second device in an infrastructure network and identification information of a radio access device connected to the second device in the infrastructure network, and if a radio access device connected to the first device and the radio access device connected to the second device in the infrastructure network are a same radio access device, communicating, by the first device, with the second device according to the address information using the connected radio access device.