On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 04:41:48PM +0200, Simon Oosthoek wrote:Alan Cox wrote:On Maw, 2006-05-23 at 16:07 +0200, Herman Elfrink wrote:Yes ethernet protocol (it's below IP level), I didn't realise that IEEE also handled the portnumbers. I'll check the ieee website to see how it works, tnx!FLAME uses an unofficial protocol number (0x4040), any tips on how to get an official IANA number would be highly appreciated.Ethernet protocol number I assume you mean. If so this at least used to
be handled by the IEEE, along with ethernet mac address ranges.
IEEE doesn't handle port numbers. Port numbers are for whatever is
layered on top of ethernet, so you need to register those with the
appropriate authorities (IANA for IP).