Thank You Alex and João for your advice and guidance. Right now i am following this site: http://www.sixpinetrees.pl/2014/11/linux-rpl-router.html if i have any doubts i will get in touch with you. On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Alexander Aring <aar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On 01/18/2017 11:55 AM, João Pedro Taveira wrote: >> Hi Alex, >> >> Apologise me if I was too hard in my previous mail. It was a simply outflow about something that I kept for too long. >> >> You’re right about the wide range of changes and/or contributions to kernel that RPL requires. I agree with you. >> >> What really wroth me was the “no way out” situation. >> >> My implementation of linux-rpl touch mainly in netdev (ipv6, icmpv6, NUD, extended headers, routing tables…). When I tried to contact netdev, I got no reply whatsoever. But before propose anything to netdev, I wanted to get linux-rpl to work with contiki using MRHOF and ETX. This would only work with feedback from 802.15.4. >> > > Yes, but MRHOF and ETX is a later step. Maybe bring at first your RPL > implementation mainline? You know... small steps? > > btw: > > I _never_ saw patches from you for a RPL implementation at netdev > mailinglist. If nobody replies send a "ping" afterwards, etc. > >> So I tried to get some support from you. You were extremely active by then getting wpan moving forward, so I thought you could help me get metrics from wpan stack. Since you were too busy and (now I think I didn’t explained correctly what I needed) you couldn’t help me. >> >> Now I know that you already faced and noticed the problem of MRHOF and ETX. >> >> In a previous mail with subject “thesis - MLE” you wrote: >> “Anyway for 802.15.4 I need to implement some kernel parts to calculate >> ETX, which means I need some ack received/non ack received counters or >> something else which can be inserted for the ETX calculation (I need to >> look into that).” >> >> From wpan, this was and still is the only problem I need to solve regarding to RPL and wpan subsystem. RPL works in a completely area of kernel. >> >> I hope get some time to get back to this project and get some kind of stats/metrics system working with RPL Objective Function implementations. >> > > I changed my decision right now to ETX from L2 ack. Because it will work > on Unicast only. LQI is something which also works on multicast. > > Anyway If you see such problem then "send-patches", this is how open > source works. Nobody will do anything when you talk about "I need that > and that...". > > - Alex -- Sincerely Your's Janardhanachari Kella Contact:+91-9908469599 E-mail: eni.chari@xxxxxxxxx -- 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
