Return-path: Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]:38532 "EHLO fmmailgate02.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754196AbYDIUt2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 16:49:28 -0400 From: Chr To: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez Subject: Re: [ANN] WiMAX stack and drivers for Intel WiMAX Link 5050 Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 22:49:25 +0200 Cc: Holger Schurig , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <200804011107.38563.inaky@linux.intel.com> <200804090959.47619.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> <200804091112.05392.inaky@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <200804091112.05392.inaky@linux.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200804092249.26231.chunkeey@web.de> (sfid-20080409_214949_062129_4CB18308) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wednesday 09 April 2008 20:12:05 Inaky Perez-Gonzalez wrote: > On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Holger Schurig wrote: > > > > 9. Anyway to reuse existing usbnet infrastructure? > > > > > > Nope, the 2400 is a pure IP device (as Marcel mentioned). > > > > With "pure IP", do you mean IPv4? Or do you mean "pure > > IPv4/IPv6"? If it is "pure IPv4", then WiMAX seems not future > > proof ... > > It takes both. I guess what we should be saying is that it is > not an ethernet-frame based device :) What you give the device > is sent over to the base station, so it really is whatever the > base station operator implements, which is mostly IP protocol > (4, 6 or whatever). It's a pity that "Internet Protocol" (as in IPv4/IPv6) as well as "Intellectual Property" (as in IP-Core) have the same abbreviation. ;-) Regards, Chr.