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From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
To: Alan Ott <alan@signal11.us>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IP over 802.2 with LLC/SNAP
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:13:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wrf4ux0i.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E2F8B7B.80906@signal11.us> (Alan Ott's message of "Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:52:27 -0400")

[I'm not sure that linux-net is an active list, are you looking
for netdev@vger.kernel.org?]

Alan Ott <alan@signal11.us> writes:

> So the question is, does Linux support IP over 802.2 with
> LLC/SNAP? 

No, I don't think that it does.  I tested this perhaps a year
ago, out of curiosity as much as anything else, and could not
find a way to make it work.

> Is there a sysfs/proc entry that I have to turn on to make this
> work (I didn't find one)?

I did not find one at the time.

I did find that one router on my company's network (I think it
was a Cisco) transformed the 802.2 LLC/SNAP headers into Ethernet
II headers as packets passed through it, which effectively acted
as a gateway to allow Linux to talk IP over 802.2 LLC/SNAP.  But
I don't think that it translated in the other direction.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
http://benpfaff.org

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-27  6:15 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 [this message]
2011-07-27 12:32 ` Alan Cox
2011-07-27 16:26   ` Rick Jones
2011-07-29 18:42   ` Alan Ott

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