help to bring up an MPP

[YanBo]

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Chris Crawford <cpc5 at buffalo.edu> wrote:
> On Wed 05/06/09  2:52 PM , Javier Cardona javier at cozybit.com sent:
>> > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Chris Crawford <cpc5 at buffalo
>> > .edu> wrote:
>> > No, unfortunately I don't have access to the
>> > IEEE 802.11s draft at this time.
>> > I've learned quite a bit about it, though, by
>> > extrapolating information from> papers related to 802.11s, HWMP and secondary
>> > documents produced by 802.11 TG s.
>> >
>> > Is it possible to help out implement proxied
>> > entities without access to the
>> > draft?
>>
>> Yes there is.  You can sift through the public documents at
>> https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/documents?x_group=000s
> (e.g.http://odysseus.ieee.org/cs.html?charset=iso-8859-1&url=htt
>> p%3A//mentor.ieee.org/802.11/file/09/11-09-0115-01-000s-proxies-and-portals
>> .doc&qt=url%3Amentor.ieee.org/802.11+||+mesh+portal&col=mentor&
>> n=2&la=en)Also, you may be able to get a copy of the draft through your academic
>> institution.  If there is an IEEE 802.11 member there, I believe they
>> are allowed to share the document internally.
>
> At UB, I have access to the IEEE Xplore database
> http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/pdp/index.asp?ID=213
> where I've tried searching for terms like 802.11s, but haven't had much luck
> uncovering a draft of 802.11s.  Should I try different search terms, or does IEEE
> keep the drafts stashed away in some other archive?
>
>
>>
>> > Or, is there a way to get my hands on a copy of
>> > the draft without parting> with a lot of cash?
>>
>> The good news is that draft 3.0 of the 802.11s amendment just passed
>> letter ballot.  We can at least have some hope that there will be a
>> public draft sometime soon.
>
> That is good news!  Based on the documents I've read, I've noticed a pattern
> where someone projects that the draft will be ratified by such-and-such a date,
> only to be delayed until maybe the following year.
>>
>> > One more question...what can you do with just
>> > the existing support for 6-address
>> > format?
>>
>> All that was implemented was connecting two subnets at L2 over a mesh.
>> That is, subnet1 - MPP - mesh - MPP - subnet2
>> YanBo (cc:) implemented that and we tested it internally.
>
> So, just to clarify...are the subnets wired to the MPP?
>
Yes, it is need wired connect, specify is using bridge or switcher connect them

/Yanbo