[Xastir] UDP frames

jeff at aerodata.net jeff at aerodata.net
Tue Jan 11 14:17:44 EST 2005


If you have a ethernet cable plug into the back of your PC, you are
running IP on top of a mac layer.

tcp/ip, raw, by itself, is ill suited for a RF protocol.

The MAC layer is your friend on RF. Understand it and take it to dinner.
It won't let you down.



>
> On Jan 11, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Alan Crosswell wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry but I'm a committed Internet Protocol bigot.  I would never
>> use a MAC layer feature that is unique to only a given Mac
>> implementation.
>
> We need IP anyway, why go to the trouble of creating an 802.11
> implementation that may or may not work on 802.3 (is 1000TX still
> 802.3?)?
>
> Keep it all IP.
>
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
>
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