Re: "mobile" orthogonal to wide-area wireless

2000-10-18 Thread Mohsen BANAN-Public
All of this and a great deal more is discussed in various old books, such as: - Internetwork Mobility - The CDPD Approach Taylor, Waung and Banan Prentice Hall 1996 ISBN: 0-13-209693-5 Hope this helps. ...Mohsen > On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 23:04:39 -0400, Keith Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "mobile" orthogonal to wide-area wireless

2000-10-18 Thread Keith Moore
> >I would rather have one address for a wireless WAN interface and > >another address for a wireless LAN interface -- which seems to be > >doable today -- much more than I want to wait for the solution > >with "Mobile IP" address traversal to become commercially available. > > No, what you want

Re: "mobile" orthogonal to wide-area wireless

2000-10-18 Thread Masataka Ohta
James; > The prevailing view seems to be that wide-area wireless > devices need to be "mobile" in the sense that they are > able to move from one network to another. This is not > the case, and maybe not even desirable. I believe that > this view has led to easily avoidable delays in wirele

Re: "mobile" orthogonal to wide-area wireless

2000-10-18 Thread John Day
At 10:47 -0700 10/18/00, James P. Salsman wrote: >Klass, > >Thanks for your reply: > > >> Is there any compelling reason why wireless IP needs to > >> be "mobile" in the sense of traversing networks? > > > > yes, I don't want to pay my expensive cellular operator when near a > > wireless LAN

Re: "mobile" orthogonal to wide-area wireless

2000-10-18 Thread Daryl Bunce
In Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> James said: > Is there any compelling reason why wireless IP needs to > be "mobile" in the sense of traversing networks? My opinion is yes, just so others can reach you/your server. ^^^ If you are running services o

Re: "mobile" orthogonal to wide-area wireless

2000-10-18 Thread James P. Salsman
Klass, Thanks for your reply: >> Is there any compelling reason why wireless IP needs to >> be "mobile" in the sense of traversing networks? > > yes, I don't want to pay my expensive cellular operator when near a > wireless LAN access point. That's a good reason, but it doesn't require such a

Re: about IPV6

2000-10-18 Thread Bob Hinden
The following are the pages for the IPng working group. http://playground.sun.com/ipng Bob At 10:23 AM 10/18/2000 +0800, luoyan wrote: >Hello, > may I have your attention please? > I want to know the information about IPV6,can you help me ?

Re: Unreliable TCP work?

2000-10-18 Thread Randall R. Stewart
Sam Liang wrote: > > Hello, > > I am wondering if there has been any work done on enhancing TCP to allow > unreliable transmission for real-time applications (audio/video). Any > information is appreciated. > > Sam > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sam: I will put forth two answers to your question...

Re: "mobile" orthogonal to wide-area wireless

2000-10-18 Thread Harald Alvestrand
At 00:42 18/10/2000 -0700, James P. Salsman wrote: >The prevailing view seems to be that wide-area wireless >devices need to be "mobile" in the sense that they are >able to move from one network to another. This is not >the case, and maybe not even desirable. I believe that >this view has led to

searching definition for data network

2000-10-18 Thread Michel Nguyen
Trying to fix my ideas with networks I searched but couldn't find (at least at my book shop) a definition for data networks. I finally came up with my own: "A data network is an entity that occasionnally allow (enought) unanbiguous information transfert between any 2 access point in a set of 3 or

Re: "mobile" orthogonal to wide-area wireless

2000-10-18 Thread Klaas Wierenga
James, > Is there any compelling reason why wireless IP needs to > be "mobile" in the sense of traversing networks? yes, I don't want to pay my expensive cellular operator when near a wireless LAN access point. Klaas

"mobile" orthogonal to wide-area wireless

2000-10-18 Thread James P. Salsman
The prevailing view seems to be that wide-area wireless devices need to be "mobile" in the sense that they are able to move from one network to another. This is not the case, and maybe not even desirable. I believe that this view has led to easily avoidable delays in wireless internet servi