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SubjectRe: IP over 802.2 with LLC/SNAP
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


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