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"Charles E. Perkins" <charles.perkins@earthlink.net> Fri, 19 December 2008 16:33 UTC

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Hello again Alex,

Alexandru Petrescu wrote:
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> All I could do, and I already offered to do, is to describe the A-B-C
> wifi deployment which works ok with MAC bridging.

Do you mean to say that we should stop engineering solutions to
ad hoc network problems, and instead all deployments must
install MAC bridging hardware?  What if I want to join a
working ad hoc network of devices using solutions that have
already been developed without bridging?  Why is this bad?

What if there is a hurricane and some of the relief workers
forgot to put their wireless bridging devices in their backpacks?

Regards,
Charlie P.

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