[ax25-layer2] Layer-2/Layer3

[John Ronan]

On 12 Oct 2005, at 14:45, Andre PE1RDW wrote:

> John Ronan schreef:
>
>
>> Hi
>> I've been lurking for a bit and am enjoying the debate. I was  
>> flying  back from London earlier today and was wondering why we  
>> couldn't use  an ad-hoc protocol such as
>> http://www.olsr.org/  for layer 3?
>> It would, most likely, need some tweaking, but it does work.
>>
>
> There is no reason why it couldn´t be used, from what I see it is a  
> flexable ip tunneling protocoll and we are already using ip on ax25.
> olsr does not care what the ip layer is riding on.
> One thing to keep in mind is that the information exchange between  
> olsr nodes can be to much for slow links.

Thats what I meant by 'tweaking' :)

I'll see if I can get time in the next few weeks (travelling next  
week) to try it out over some linux boxes I have access to (two  
Igates + my own machine).

Regards
de John
EI7IG

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