Re: [ANNOUNCE] FLAME: external kernel module for L2.5 meshing

Simon Oosthoek
2006-05-23T17:42:49Z

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