OK. Let me simplify.

I have a laptop running Windows XP. I have created an ad-hoc wireless network. The iPad has detected the network and automatically been assigned that IP address. So we can say that we have two wireless interfaces here that are 'seeing' each other - the iPad's and the laptop's. Now, it happens that these two interfaces which are seeing each other are on different subnets. How then are they 'seeing' each other? 

@Wash About internet access, nimetumia some workaround - installed a proxy server on the XP laptop and defined a static route to allow the iPad to access the proxy IP. But hata hivo, before installing the proxy and defining the static route, the two devices were still 'seeing' each other. That's the mystery that's boggling my mind.


Me

On 8 November 2011 15:09, Tony Gacheru <tonygacheru@gmail.com> wrote:

Whichever device is acting as the accesspoint for your hotspot must be doing the routing.

 

From: skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke [mailto:skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke] On Behalf Of Simon Mbuthia
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 2:35 PM
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Yes Tony,

 

Habari ya siku mob? I think you haven't understood my question. There is no router but the connection exists. How is that? Now that is my question

On 8 November 2011 14:30, Tony Gacheru <tonygacheru@gmail.com> wrote:

Would only work if there is a router on the network that has both routes in its routing table. Key word here is ROUTER.

 

From: skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke [mailto:skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke] On Behalf Of Simon Mbuthia
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 2:27 PM
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Subject: [Skunkworks] Something about wireless

 

Hey geeks,

 

I have a question. There is something that I do not understand about how wireless technology works. I have an iPad and a laptop with me. I have setup an ad hoc wireless network/hotspot so that I can access the web using the iPad. The wireless adapter's IP address is 192.168.0.1, while the one for the iPad is 169.254.x.x

 

What I seek to understand is how these two devices are able to communicate while being in different subnets - that is, how is the routing between 192.168.0.0/24 and 169.254.0.0/16 done?

 

 

Curious me.


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