This is not a standards issue. The SIMH FAQ has a more detailed write-up of wireless Ethernet.
Wireless Ethernet routers are allowed to do ANYTHING they want to conserve wireless bandwidth. Almost ALL wireless network card drivers and routers drop non-IP packets to conserve bandwidth, and reject "unregistered" MAC addresses. Very few wireless devices will work with non-IP protocols (DECNET IV, LAT, Appletalk, etc.) unless the device has bridge mode enabled and supports non-IP protocols in bridge mode. Regarding your (later) question of LAN bridges: It's the same as the LAT question. The device either has to support bridge mode, or you have to fake it by tunneling it over the wireless IP connection. Dave From: Paul Koning [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 1:54 PM To: Hittner, David T (IS) Cc: Zane Healy; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: simh on RaspBerry Pi > On Feb 15, 2016, at 1:48 PM, Hittner, David T (IS) <[email protected]> > wrote: > > LAT runs fine over the (wired) Ethernet port. > LAT doesn’t run over wireless Ethernet without major help from the wireless > hardware or unless it’s tunneled over IP. I'm still baffled. Why doesn't it? 802.11 has the same MAC layer service as Ethernet -- broadcast, multicast, unicast, 48 bit addresses, etc. What specifically does LAT do that doesn't work on 802.11? Is it a standards issue, or a case of defective implementations? paul _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
