Abstract:
Method for controlling the interconnecting of a plurality of local communications networks. A source station (30-1) and a destination station (30-N) may respectively be adapted to be coupled to at least one of a plurality of local data networks (10). The respective stations are adapted to determine the home network of the other respective stations with which the respective stations may communicate. Broadly, a source station (30-1), which has message to transmit to a destination station (30-N), determines the home network (10) of the destination station and couples a first source receiver (100) and a source transmitter (100) to the home network of the destination station for transmitting a packet from the source to the destination. A first packet may be transmitted when the source station (30-1) acquires access to the destination home network. Further packets may be transmitted, not on the destination home network, but rather on the source home network. The source transmitter (100) may be decoupled from the destination home network (10) for such further packet transmission.