help to bring up an MPP

[Chris Crawford]

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?