On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 00:25:43 +0100 (BST) Adam Bower wrote:

On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, David Freeman wrote:

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Hello, welcome, from your cam.ac.uk address I am assuming you are from Cambridge Uni.

Blimey David, that was an amazing bit of detective work ;-)

Well after your detective work recently it pails into insignificaince :o)

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A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away I was a Field Archaeologist, and have been responsible for introducing 22 tonne tracked excavators to some of Britain's less interesting Scheduled Ancient monuments.

I'm not going to ask.

I would like to know the details, sounds like the Eddie Izard method of archaeology!

More like blitzkriege archaeology, I have images of a large JCB dumping a bucket load of soil onto the small sivve and covering that increadibly gorgeous red head archeaology student that is always present at various digs.

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Perhaps you can lend advice to a poor student who has be accused of being a wireless network expert and given the task of connecting a field somewhere in the bottom left hand corner of belguim a network connection for a week so a large quantity of geeks in various states of soberness can connect to the web! bugger!

Heh, you don't have to worry about this David, all you have to do is get the wireless LAN to talk to the other bit, I can do all the Masquerade for the campsite and the networky bits and get all the DNS working etc. etc..... that (in answer to your question from irc last week) is what sys-admins are for and what sys-admins do!

I can tell you don't know much about radio. It is a black art I haven't mastered completely, it is not unknown to sit with a signal stoping 10' short of where you want to be whilst 1000' away you get a brilliant signal! Reminds me of a friend who was involved in york uni radio and they got a call from dubia as the signal had bounced off the ionisphere and was crystal clear in dubai! We don't need to masq or anything as far as the IP layer is concerned all you will see is one big subnet, the wireless stuff all works at the MAC layer, which is why its so fun. The IP stuff is easy, just need a DHCP server at one end and a big hub at each end. Thanks D

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