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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv applying for an official Ethertype?
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Hey Andrew,

i'm only aware of ether-wake which uses 0x8042 as (unregistered) ethertype =
to send=20
WOL packets and was obviously used in scyld beowulf systems according to=20
the manpage [1]. Wireshark also recognizes these packets [2].

I know this ethertype because we used this ethertype in our first batman-adv
implementations as well (because it is such a nice number ...). ;)

Maybe we find someone funding the money for the ethertype some time, but cu=
rrently
i don't know anyone who would be interested in this.

According to the Ethertype list from the IEEE [3], our ethertype 0x4305 is=
=20
currently not in use, so the chance to collide is quite low.

best regards,
	Simon

[1] http://linux.die.net/man/8/ether-wake
[2] http://wiki.wireshark.org/WakeOnLAN
[3] http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/ethertype/eth.txt

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:59:03AM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > We know about it. Nobody gave us the money yet... and I think it will n=
ever=20
> > happen that a rich boy come to us and give us that money just for 16 bi=
t...
>=20
> The fee is about equivalent to 3 man days of work. So its not that big
> a sum for a commercial entity wanting to use batman in a product.
>=20
> However, when i posed this question, i had Linux mainline in the back
> of my head. Would batman get into mainline when it is using an
> unofficial ethertype? I guess i need to see if any other protocol is
> using an unofficial ethertype.
>=20
>       Andrew
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