From: Herman Elfrink <herman.elfrink@ti-wmc.nl>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Simon Oosthoek <simon.oosthoek@ti-wmc.nl>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] FLAME: external kernel module for L2.5 meshing
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 09:01:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <447BEDDF.2080301@ti-wmc.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060523094324.11926fcc@localhost.localdomain>
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>Didn't you just reinvent 802.1d bridging? and/or WDS?
>
>
>
Hi Stephen,
Yes, more or less, but with a twist.
802.1D does not allow retransmitting over the same interface (which is
what basically happens in mesh networks), and WDS uses static
configuration of neighbouring hops (we want to support dynamically
changing configurations).
Regards,
Herman.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-30 7:01 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
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 [this message]
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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