[Olsr-users] 802.11S

[Don Moskaluk]

Regardless of the terminology when you have two different wireless mesh nodes (hardware, software, firmware, etc) you should have the ability to interconnect not only a signal level but also using the service OLSR.  Not sure if this made sense however since you are about wireless mesh I just thought that I ask the question. 

Don Moskaluk
www.moskaluk.com 


-----Original Message-----
From: (spam-protected) [mailto:(spam-protected)] On Behalf Of Filipe Abrantes
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 1:27 PM
To: David Gascón
Cc: (spam-protected); Bernd Petrovitsch
Subject: Re: [Olsr-users] 802.11S

if the difference between routing and switching is on at which layer 
packets are forwarded, then I would say neither 11s nor 15.4 are doing 
routing. If not, then what really is the difference between switching 
and routing?

Cheers,
Filipe


David Gascón escreveu:
>> Since 802.11s is on OSI-layer 2, it will not route. It can only switch
>> (or bridge) - similar to a switch in the wired world.
>>   
>>     
> not really. 802.15.4 (ZigBee) is on layer 2 and does mesh.
>
> regards.
>
> David.
>
>   


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