Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

On 07/29/2019 11:47 AM, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 09:30:32 -0500
>> Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I've just begun reading - primarily Wikipedia articles and some links
>> from them.  My primary question is "What should I be reading?" in
>> order to ask appropriate questions. Specifically "What?" and "Why?"
>> much more than "Howto?".
> 
> The primary difference between Bluetooth and WiFi is on the L2 level
> (OSI network model). ... WiFi is a proper network interface, ...

The question of "WiFi or Bluetooth" has become moot. Not all of my 
machines have  Bluetooth.

> 
> The main challenge that I see in your setup is connecting the network
> to the outside world.

Not a problem. My immediate project's goal is educational.
My learning style is experimenting. Failures are assumed ;}
My solution is to rigidly isolate test machines from internet.

> 
> Reading questions that may help:
> How to connect two hosts using Bluetooth that does not require them to
> be in a master-slave relationship?

Bluetooth may now be moot. But not having a fixed master-slave 
relationship is important. {e.g. the topology/protocol described at 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_area_network
which leads to "Wireless ad hoc network" related links starting at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_ad_hoc_network}

> How to connect one WiFi interface to multiple networks? (If you find
> out, please post the answer here. xD )

I have no idea of how to describe a test case. The above Wikipedia link 
may suggest something?

> What application-level interfaces will you use to actually *use* the
> network? (FTP? Web? 9P2000? NFS? Gopher? gRPC? Whatever Bluetooth uses?)

Long-term - ?????
Initially whatever Debian defaults to when intentionally isolated from 
the internet.

{I've never installed LFS but have found its documentation and lists 
useful because of the fine-grained approach to systems.}

What do I want my "user-interface" to look like? Don't know ;/
The initial motivation for all this was to eliminate "sneaker-net".
I want convenient file sharing between pairs of machines more than among 
a collection of machines.




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