Re: [ANNOUNCE] FLAME: external kernel module for L2.5 meshing

On Tue, 2006-23-05 at 19:43 +0200, Simon Oosthoek wrote:

Stephen Hemminger wrote:

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On Tue, 23 May 2006 16:07:47 +0200
Herman Elfrink [off-list ref] wrote:

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FLAME stands for "Forwarding Layer for Meshing"

Didn't you just reinvent 802.1d bridging? and/or WDS?

I wouldn't say "reinvent", but the difference is small but significant. 
FLAME could be seen as ad hoc WDS, I think. It doesn't need to know 
about the other "base-stations", which I think WDS does.

Essentially you are extending the broadcast domain i.e a bridge within
on top of a bridge. I would question the scalability of such a beast
in the presence of many nodes. Also take a look at some of the work
Radia Perlman (who invented bridging really) is up to these days.

cheers,
jamal