I think you have misunderstood.. what if there is no connection to the
internet even for the first laptop?
I think at the most basic level, a handful of laptops in the Sahara (or
any sufficiently remote area free of Internet conneciton) should be
fully networkable onto themselves. This is the nature of having a mesh networkable device. Requirements therein include basic path discovery,
network connectivity of the LAN (in a loose term, given the range of
wireless antennae and the geographical nature of deployments), and routing/middleman assistance for multi-hop connections (A node talks to C node via B node, due to geographical distance). So basic
p2p applications will all
function as-is free of a Internet connection. The addition of an
Internet connection should not be mandatory in any way.
Does that address what you want, or did I misunderstand?
Does that address what you want, or did I misunderstand?
Michael Burns
Network Engineering
Oregon State University
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