iPhone as a wireless Router (not Hotspot)

This is incorrect, iOS' network stack is NOT slimmed down the point it couldn't do what I want it to do (wireless router).

The 'personal hotspot' functionality provides the following functionalities:

1. DHCP server: every device connecting to the iPhone's Wifi gets an IP address assigned by the iPhone

2. DNS resolution: any name resolution requests from the devices connected via personal hotspot are dealt by the iPhone.

3. network router, any network package to/from any connected device is routed properly within and outside of the HotSpot's network segment.

Btw, iOS is based on 4.4BSD-Lite2 and FreeBSD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution)

In order to provide a wireless router's functionality, Only 1. and 3. are needed, so the Hotspot functionality of iOS already has everything needed, no need to extend.

Btw, I am not buying the iPhone 'FOR THAT', I bought and like the iPhone for many reasons, I was only asking whether Apple did not limit the hotspot's functionality but the answer is the did.

By now this becomes a pointless discussion, Apple did limit this functionality on purpose and they are not going to enable it because somebody (me) comes up with a corner case that doesn't help driving further sales and I understand that. I am going to continue to use my RasPi as wireless router, end of discussion.

True, but I am not expecting the iPhone to make me coffee either. The iPhone is a little computer with a really powerful Unix based network stack, so the iPhone is capable of doing what I am asking it to do, it's just that iOS doesn't allow it. Which is a limiting choice by the manufacturer and not a limitation of the device per se.

bummer... and again a $10 device beats a $800 iPhone

Thanks anyway

It's NOT a new feature/functionality, that's what my previous posts was all about, it's already in iOS' core demonstrated by the existence of 'personal hotspot'.

"People buy the product for what they can do and not what they wished it to do". Don't even know what to say about that, this is either as obvious as anything or there is some real deep meaning behind it, not quite sure what I am leaning towards.

Got to say, posting to this Apple community has been a real eye opener, not going to do that anytime soon. The conversations on my Linux forum's are typically much more substantial and deal with technical content on a deeper level and are less 'facebooky'... No wonder I checked out of Facebook ...

Bye, bye