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From: Simon Oosthoek <wmc_simon@fastmail.fm>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] FLAME: external kernel module for L2.5 meshing
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 19:43:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <447349A6.50105@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060523094324.11926fcc@localhost.localdomain>

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 2006 16:07:47 +0200
> Herman Elfrink <herman.elfrink@ti-wmc.nl> wrote:
> 
>>  
>> FLAME stands for "Forwarding Layer for Meshing"
>>
> 
> Didn't you just reinvent 802.1d bridging? and/or WDS?

I wouldn't say "reinvent", but the difference is small but significant. 
FLAME could be seen as ad hoc WDS, I think. It doesn't need to know 
about the other "base-stations", which I think WDS does.

> As far as the Ethernet protocol field. Getting a real assigned number
> would have to come out of the IEEE 802. 
> 
> You would need
> 	http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/ethertype/forms/index.html
> 
> It is cheaper (free vs $2500) to get a LLC sap assigned, but then
> you would have to change the protocol.
> 	http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/llc/index.html

Wow, thanks, $2500 is a bit steep for a useful experiment ;-)
The free option could be interesting though...

Cheers

Simon


  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-23 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-23 14:07 [ANNOUNCE] FLAME: external kernel module for L2.5 meshing Herman Elfrink
2006-05-23 14:38 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-05-23 14:51   ` Simon Oosthoek
2006-05-23 15:09     ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-23 15:20     ` Alan Cox
2006-05-23 14:48 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-23 14:41   ` Simon Oosthoek
2006-05-23 14:55     ` Erik Mouw
2006-05-23 15:00       ` Simon Oosthoek
2006-05-23 15:14       ` Alan Cox
2006-05-30  6:42         ` Herman Elfrink
2006-05-30  8:43           ` Herman Elfrink
2006-05-23 16:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-05-23 17:43   ` Simon Oosthoek [this message]
2006-05-24 18:43     ` jamal
2006-05-25 10:53       ` Simon Oosthoek
2006-05-25 15:38         ` jamal
2006-05-30  7:01   ` Herman Elfrink
2006-05-24 20:50 ` Pavel Machek
2006-05-25  9:36   ` Simon Oosthoek
2006-05-30  8:29   ` Herman Elfrink

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