Will a LAN support both iOS and Linux computers?

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 29 Aug 2014 21:23:22 -0500 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Will a LAN support both iOS and Linux computers?

A LAN will support any computer that has a network interface (wired or
wireless [assuming that there is a wireless AP on the LAN -- note: most
'wireless router appliances', such as the little Linksys, D-Link, or Netgear
gadgets available at Radio Shack, Best Buy, Fryes, etc., are in fact *Linux
computers* themselves]). Whether the computers on the network can 'talk' to
each other (eg interoperate) depends on whether the computer can speak in
common or standard protocols. I believe iOS computers should be able to handle
802.11[bgn] (eg Wireless networking) and can speak http and https protocols
over tcp/ip. I don't know what other protocols iOS support out-of-the-box,
probably several other (eg DNS queries certainly, maybe SMTP, POP3, IMAP,
probably others). Linux computers support all of these protocols and others. 
The same can be said of MS-Windows machines, MacOSX systems, *BSD systems, 
Android systems, and CromeOS systems.  Or any of the commercial UNIXes: IRIX, 
Solaris, HPUX, AIX, etc. Or various other (more obscure) systems, like OpenVMS 
or System/390, should you have one of these machines in your basement. :-)


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