On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 07:29:08 -0600 John Hasler <jhas...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Celejar writes: > > I'm not that familiar with the internals, but basically, the phone > > presents a wifi access point, the computer connects to it as it would > > to any AP, and the phone apparently routes packets to and from the > > cellular network. > > Yes, I know that. However, the packets are being encapsulated in some > way. They may be encapsulating the IP packets directly or they may be > encapsulating the ethernet packets as PPP does. Either way there is an I assume the phone first just routes them from wifi to cellular. I'm not familiar with how it then transmits them over the cellular link. > opportunity for problems similar to those that have developed with > PPPoE because encapsulization always involves adding headers. The > packets are being encapsulated for the WiFi too, of course. Yes, but that happens with virtually all this machine's network connections. Celejar