You are right. Sorry about the confusion. It is more of wireless stack layering issue.
-----Original Message----- From: Marek Lindner [mailto:lindner_marek@yahoo.de] Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 10:03 AM To: Bhat, Ishwara Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.net; olsr list users mailing Subject: Re: [Olsr-users] [B.A.T.M.A.N.] point me to some OSI layer diagramsif possible ?
On Thursday 10 December 2009 12:28:37 you wrote:
I thought 802.11s need not be strictly layer 2. Open source 11s driver is on top of MAC drivers that comply with mac80211 framework.
So it can be either layer 2 or 2.5.
I'm no expert on this driver because I never really used it (just had a quick look through the code) but why do you think it is layer 2.5 ?
The page you provided clearly says: open80211s is based on the mac80211 wireless stack and should run on any of the wireless cards that mac80211 supports.
Seems it does not run over ethernet/VPNs/other_layer2 ...
Maybe you confused it with the layers inside of the linux wifi stack ?
Regards, Marek