On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:56:49AM -0800, Guy Harris wrote: | On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 08:54:52AM +0100, Hannes Gredler wrote: | > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:13:05PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote: | > | On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 11:01:43AM +0100, Hannes Gredler wrote: | > | > pls find a patch that shows now OSI in GRE tunneled packets | > | > that the payload is OSI and not "unknown"; | > | | > | Checked in (although I got the OSI SAP value from "llcsaps.h" rather | > | than adding it to "greproto.h"). | > | > thats one of the odd things in GRE - the protocol ID of the payload | > is actually an ethertype
[ ... ] | Now, perhaps the ones that are in the IANA document have really been | assigned as Ethertypes, so that one could use them to, for example, do | Frame Relay over Ethernet without the Ethertype Gods smiting you, but | 00FE isn't a valid Ethertype so it's just a GREism. :-) right - IMHO it would be better to pick 0xFEFE like CHDLC does it; in order to produce a valid ethertype contribute a bit to clean up the 2-byte protocol-ID mess <sigh>; /hannes
