Stephen Hemminger wrote:
On Tue, 23 May 2006 16:07:47 +0200
Herman Elfrink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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