Re: [Autoconf] aspects of multi-hop wireless communication

[Alexandru Petrescu <[e-mail]>]

Charles, hi, thanks for the reply,

Charles E. Perkins wrote:
> 
> Hello again Alex,
> 
> Alexandru Petrescu wrote:
>> 
>> 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?

Errr... somehow yes, if I'm permitted.  I simply suggest a link-layer
solution to a link-layer problem.

> 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?

It's not bad.

One would first deploy bridges in networks that are partitioned and in
need of bridges.  Then any new terminal needing to join could do so,
without needing to be itself a bridge.

The question is why does one refuse the use of bridges when the network
is partitioned at link-layer?

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

No no... they won't, because they're trained to never forget these
things at home.  And if they do, then there exist other super-reliefs
aids sending them trucks full of these devices.

Alex

> 
> Regards, Charlie P.
> 
> 


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