From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rick Jones Subject: Re: IP over 802.2 with LLC/SNAP Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:26:36 -0700 Message-ID: <4E303C3C.5040802@hp.com> References: <4E2F8B7B.80906@signal11.us> <20110727133209.0d9dd6c4@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Alan Ott , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Return-path: Received: from g6t0184.atlanta.hp.com ([15.193.32.61]:36211 "EHLO g6t0184.atlanta.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754603Ab1G0Q0j (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:26:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110727133209.0d9dd6c4@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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