Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:26:36 -0700 | From | Rick Jones <> | Subject | Re: IP over 802.2 with LLC/SNAP |
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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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