Kragen Sitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You missed my point. I'm not arguing about IP. I'm pointing up the difference between a WLAN that has a gateway to the Internet, and a WLAN that exists separate to the Internet with no gateway. Both would probably be running TCP/IP.Julian Bond writes:And also I guess that WiFi and WiFi related protocols will be used for other things than just internet access.People normally set up Internet connections in order to run some Internet application, such as the Web and email. Once you run an application over an Internet connection, it becomes an Internet application. While I agree that a few applications that can run over WiFi cannot run over IP --- for example, AppleTalk printer sharing --- I think and hope that most WiFi applications and WiFi traffic are IP, because limiting an application to a LAN is a shame.
WiFi doesn't imply that the resulting WLAN was specifically set up to provide Internet access. That's just a common usage.
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