On Tue, 2006-23-05 at 19:43 +0200, Simon Oosthoek wrote: > 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. >
Essentially you are extending the broadcast domain i.e a bridge within on top of a bridge. I would question the scalability of such a beast in the presence of many nodes. Also take a look at some of the work Radia Perlman (who invented bridging really) is up to these days. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
