On Tue 30 Mar 2021 at 19:29:49 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 30 Mar 2021 at 11:19:48 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > [...] > > > What well meaning members of this list have not picked up on is that I am > > very literal minded and careful in phrasing my questions. I've said > > somewhere in this thread that my "universe of discourse" is explicitly > > limited to Laptop-1 and Laptop2. I've not been a sophomore B.S.E.E. student > > for over a half-century ;} But I can see a Sophomore lab being set up with > > my specified constraints. Since this thread started I have been reading > > about "ad-hoc networks". That's my goal. Real world has temporarily > > interrupted my pursuit. > > You have to bear in mind that other users read these posts and maybe > have similar objectives in mind. Posts veering away from the caefully > phrased question could spark their interest and lead them towards a > solution to an issue
Ten minutes after writing that I recollected I possess a non-working router. It is the first I bought (> 100 GBP) and has not yet beem re-cycled. My network also hasn't any spare LAN ports to connect to and some of the devices have beem wireless-enabled to communicate with them. Now - could I use this non-internet-capable router as a switch? See what I was getting at? An idea that is unrelated to your first post. Carefully phrased or not, a thread cannot be actively channelled to meet the demands of its originator. -- A well-meaning -debian member.
