From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Herman Elfrink <herman.elfrink@ti-wmc.nl>
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 09:43:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060523094324.11926fcc@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44731733.7000204@ti-wmc.nl>
On Tue, 23 May 2006 16:07:47 +0200
Herman Elfrink <herman.elfrink@ti-wmc.nl> wrote:
>
> FLAME stands for "Forwarding Layer for Meshing"
>
> FLAME provides an intermediate layer between the network layer (e.g.
> IPv4/IPv6) and the link (MAC) layer, providing L2.5 meshing. Both
> network layer and MAC layer can be used unchanged: to the network layer
> FLAME appears as a normal Ethernet-type MAC layer, and the underlying
> `real' MAC layer will see it as just another type of network layer.
>
Didn't you just reinvent 802.1d bridging? and/or WDS?
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-23 16:43 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 [this message]
2006-05-23 17:43 ` Simon Oosthoek
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20060523094324.11926fcc@localhost.localdomain \
--to=shemminger@osdl.org \
--cc=herman.elfrink@ti-wmc.nl \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).