[Olsr-users] 802.11S

[Aaron Kaplan]

On May 16, 2008, at 9:05 PM, Filipe Abrantes wrote:

> When using an 802.11s network, all nodes within that network will  
> appear as if they are 1-hop (L3) away from each other (although I  
> don't really know if 11s implements pure broadcast). So, what would  
> happen if you ran olsrd on top of the 11s network would be to have  
> all nodes creating direct routes (no L3 gateway) to each other.
>

Filip, thanks for the clarifying comment.
Don: to be a bit more explicit: YES olsr from olsr.org and 80211s  
will interoperate as automagically. 802.11s will appear like a big  
switch to any layer 3 OLSR network. More clarification might be  
obtained if you peek at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model

hope it helps too.

a.

> hope this helps,
> Filipe
>
>
> Don Moskaluk escreveu:
>> 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:olsr-users- 
>> (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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