From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Alan Ott <alan@signal11.us>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IP over 802.2 with LLC/SNAP
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:26:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E303C3C.5040802@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110727133209.0d9dd6c4@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On 07/27/2011 05:32 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
>> So the question is, does Linux support IP over 802.2 with LLC/SNAP? Is
>> there a sysfs/proc entry that I have to turn on to make this work (I
>> didn't find one)? I have the LLC2 module loaded, and I believe my packet
>> to be correct, since Windows recognizes it and since Wireshark doesn't
>> give any red flags on it. I've been unable to find anything about this
>> kind of thing in my searching.
>
> Linux supports LLC/SNAP and various things over it (IPX/Appletalk DDP
> etc) but not IP over it, as it's one of those standards bodies driven
> bogosities which nobody ever actually deployed.
Well... Hewlett-Packard deployed it in the 80's and 90's in MPE and
HP-UX, HP-UX because until the mid-ish 1990's MPE only spoke 802.2 not
"Ethernet." By the late 1990's I think it was gone from HP-UX.
rick jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-27 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-27 3:52 IP over 802.2 with LLC/SNAP Alan Ott
2011-07-27 5:13 ` Ben Pfaff
2011-07-27 12:32 ` Alan Cox
2011-07-27 16:26 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2011-07-29 18:42 ` Alan Ott
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