Hi Alex, Johan, On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016, Alexander Aring wrote: >> > This is tricky because the even using privacy the address of the >> > interface is defined by the time the connection is established, but >> > perhaps there is a way to set this properly on the network interface, >> > anyway I do agree the making the interface persistent is probably much >> > more convenient. >> > >> >> This is currently something which I don't understand. With "privacy" you >> mean the LE_PUBLIC and LE_PRIVATE address, the address type? > > Might be worth to do a quick read-through of section 1.3 in Vol 6, Part > B of the Bluetooth Core specification (v4.2) for a quick overview of LE > addresses. On the top-level you have public & random, but random itself > is further split into three different sub-types out of which two are > considered "private". The third one, a static random address, is > considered an identity address the same way a public address is. The so called privacy, the use of RPA, is actually recommended by RFC 7668: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7668#section-3.2.2 >> I think, we don't need that when we doing an interface register. This is >> currently one of the big issue which this RFC fixes, the 8 byte vs 6 >> bytes address. >> >> At Interface register we need to know the source address only, which is >> my opinion the hdev->bdaddr. This address has (in my opinion) nothing >> todo with the address type. >> >> I can argument here with rfc7668: >> >> "This means that no bit in the IID indicates whether the >> underlying Bluetooth device address is public or random." See above the rfc7668 actually recommends using RPAs. >> The IID is for autoconfiguration the last 8 bytes of IPv6 address and >> usually generated by "dev->dev_addr" (dev = struct net_device). >> Also the "dev->dev_addr" will be used in address options for >> NS/NA/RS/RA... >> >> In the current implementation the IID generation is mixed with the >> "dev->addr" (dev as struct net_device) field which is wrong. >> >> In summary: >> >> We don't need to know to wait for connection to setting the >> "dev->dev_addr" (struct net_device). This field should be "hdev->bdaddr" >> and hdev should be the hdev which is bounded to the dev(lowpan struct >> net_device). >> >> I see no issues to create interfaces before, except you saying that >> "hdev->bdaddr" is unknown. > > hdev->bdaddr tracks the public address of a device, however the > Bluetooth specification doesn't mandate that all devices have a public > address, i.e. it can also be all zeroes. In particular, single-mode > (LE-only) devices may only use a random address and have a static random > address as their identity address. Maybe it's the identity address that > you should be using instead of hdev->bdaddr? > > Right now the identity address isn't stored in any variable, but we do > have a hci_copy_identity_address() function to fetch it (you'd just > ignore the addr_type if you don't need that). > > Also note that the identity address isn't necessarily the same as what > was used to create the connection, so if the connection address is of > importance we track that in hci_conn->init_addr and hci_conn->resp_addr. Following the recommendation of rfc7668 which say the node should always change its address when connecting, which means advertise a different address, also the router should periodically change is RPA, thus the network interface may have to assume different MAC addresses which I don't is currently possible or we are back to having the interfaces created on demand. -- Luiz Augusto von Dentz -- 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
