Re: IP over 802.2 with LLC/SNAP

[Rick Jones]

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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