netdev - Re: IP over 802.2 with LLC/SNAP

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Message-ID: <4E303C3C.5040802@hp.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:26:36 -0700
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	Alan Ott <alan@...nal11.us>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-net@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 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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