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 To: Skunkworks Mailing List Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Something about wireless 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 To: Skunkworks forum 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. _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24 <http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94> &t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke