[Olsr-users] 802.11S

[Don Moskaluk]

Thanks Aaron
So therefore you will be able to interconnect to this big switch and therefore you will not need any additional equipment.

Cool

Thanks again
Don

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----- Original Message -----
From: Aaron Kaplan <(spam-protected)>
To: Don Moskaluk
Cc: Filipe Abrantes <(spam-protected)>; David Gascón <(spam-protected)>; (spam-protected) <(spam-protected)>; Bernd Petrovitsch <(spam-protected)>
Sent: Fri May 16 15:02:42 2008
Subject: Re: [Olsr-users] 802.11S

Don. To be more spefic: interconnection will work out automagically  
since well 80211s is like a big switch. Hope it helped,
A.



Am 16.05.2008 um 20:36 schrieb "Don Moskaluk"  
<(spam-protected)>:

> 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
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> -----Original Message-----
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> ] 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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