Hi Alex, On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 20:02 +0200, Alexander Aring wrote: > Hi, > > I like to collect some _big_ issues which I detected on current btle > 6lowpan > implementation, these are: > > 1. The l2 daddr comes not from ndisc cache. This should come from > ndisc > cache, instead the implementation construct the l2 from L3 > address > which only works for autoconfiguration addresses, all other > addresses seems not be working for btle 6lowpan. > > 2. The dev->dev_addr should be the 6 byte baddr and NOT the eui64 > generated baddr with fffe pattern and u/l bit. The eui64 should > not > be part of source/target address options of ndisc messages, it > should > be the baddr in big endian format. (dev->addr_len need to be 6 > then, > as well). baddr is the mac address of btle transceiver. > > The 1. is easy to fix, but then I detected if we do that, the > neighbour > cache messages NS/NA/RS, etc use the eui64 fffe pattern with u/l bit > for > these messages, because the issue 2. So we will get the wrong address > from ndisc. The ndisc should store the 6 bytes baddr in big endian > format. > So these two issues need to be fixed in some patch and changes > everything > in btle 6lowpan. > > I started to work on this but the issue 2. is a big change in btle > 6lowpan > so I want to start the discussion about to fix that to doing it in > the > right way. > > Jukka, do you agree that this behaviour is currently broken in btle > 6lowpan? Yes you are right that there are issues. Fortunately the bt0 is currently a point-to-point link in which case ND is not really done and everything kind of "works" ok. I added Patrik to cc: as he has been working to fix the issues but the patches are not yet ready. Perhaps we could combine the efforts here. Cheers, Jukka -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wpan" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
