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Re: "mobile" orthogonal to wide-area wireless

2000-10-18 13:40:03
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 access point.

That's a good reason, but it doesn't require such a drastic solution.

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 is a serial number. Or at least what you describe is a serial number. An address is very different.

Take care,
John