From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: terrylr@blauedonau.com Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 15:59:46 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] routing roaming computers with wireless ethernet cards Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org hello; question: how should routing be handled for computers with wireless ethernet connections? example: computer 'a' roams into local wireless cell covered by access point 'linux-ap'. computer 'a' may or may not have a valid public ip address. how should routing be handled for computer 'a'? yet another example: roadkill cafe has wireless ethernet access. customers come in for coffee and want to surf the web using their wireless ethernet. the customers may or not not have a valid public ip address. how should routing of these roaming computers be handled. is this beyond iproute2 and getting into gated area? -- Terry L. Ridder Blue Danube Artistic Forge (Blaue Donau Kunstschmiede) "We do not bend metal, we sculpt it." digging deep, i feel my conscience burn i need to know who and what i am this hunger jolts me from complacency rocks me, makes me meet myself ----kendall payne---closer to myself--- _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/