Re: 6lowpan socket

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2015-11-13 11:54 GMT+01:00 Alexander Aring <alex.aring@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 11:29:36AM +0100, Baptiste Clenet wrote:
>> 2015-11-12 9:53 GMT+01:00 Alexander Aring <alex.aring@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> > Hi Baptiste,
>> >
>> > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 01:14:48AM +0100, Baptiste Clenet wrote:
>> >> From Christopher:
>> >>
>> >> Oh - sorry. 6LowPAN uses IPv6. So it's equivalent to setting up an IPv6 socket.
>> >>
>> >> Just remember to set up routes as appropriate and it should work fine.
>> >>
>> >> Unfortunately, I think vger bounces email from android devices, so my
>> >> message won't make it out on the list.
>> >>
>> >> ©
>> >>
>> >> Sent from my Android
>> >>
>> >> Yeah sure, it's equivalent, it's what I thought. I will search deeper
>> >
>> > I see you as well on the RIOT mailinglist. Do you has these issues with
>> > RIOT?
>> >
>>
>> Yes I'm in both mailing list.
>> The problem was not with Riot but openwrt. It works now, thanks you.
>>
>
> ok.
>
>> > You can check it with fakelb and bsd-netcat and create/connect udp v6 socket,
>> > if it works with a linux<->linux connection, otherwise something is
>> > wrong with interoperability (which you can might debug via sniffing).
>> >
>> > I know they have recently added the rfc6282 udp nhc compression, see
>> > [0]. We have nhc_udp enabled by default, (receive handling should have
>> > a always possible strategy).
>> >
>> > Usually you can disable UDP NHC by unloading the "nhc_udp" module if you
>> > built it as module. But then you can also not receive anymore other udp
>> > nhc iphc headers.
>> >
>> > To make a fine granularity setting to the nhc strategy, we need a
>> > userspace tool and interface for that.
>> >
>> > - Alex
>> >
>> > [0] https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/pull/4189
>>
>>
>> Ok for nhc compression, I let the default configuration and it worked.
>>
>
> You should look for "default configuration" a look into rfc6282. There
> is a special port-range which can be compressed. Maybe you want to use
> that. It will be used automatically.
>
>> I'm wondering something else about IPV6, how to change the default
>> IPV6 that the at86rf2XX will trigger?
>> If we change the IPV6 of lowpan0 (with ip -6 addr del ... for
>> instance) and then add the new one, it doesn't affect the reg
>> IEEE_ADDR_0,1,2....
>
> mac address != ip address.
>
> with ip -6 addr you mean == ip address.
>
> with ip link set dev xx address yyy == mac address.
>
>> So I wanted to use iwpan but I can only change the short_addr if I'm not wrong.
>
> short address is part of mac address which is currently not supported by
> 802.15.4 6lowpan. This is a bigger issue because the whole ipv6
> stack/net core api does know only _ONE_ type of mac address and this has
> only _ONE_ length.
>
> There exists few ideas to handle that, but we need to talk about which
> is the right one...
>
>> Which way is the cleanest to edit the IPV6 address of the transceiver?
>> (and it will impact lowpan0) I thought about edit it in the at86rf23XX
>> driver.
>>
>
> There is a bug one some kernel versions, see [0]. If you want a new mac
> address, ifdown both wpan/lowpan interface -> then change mac address
> via ip link set ... (extended address). Then ifup both interfaces again.
Thanks, it work nicely. Without the patch, lowpan 0 should not exist
to edit wpan0 mac address, then create lowpan0.
>
> - Alex
>
> [0] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/net/mac802154/iface.c?id=09095fdc9e5d5438051fc4e92867f1aff764cd21



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Baptiste
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