Hello.
On 04/26/2017 11:05 AM, Xue Liu wrote:
On 25 April 2017 at 16:10, Stefan Schmidt <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hello.
On 04/25/2017 12:00 PM, Xue Liu wrote:
Hello,
I am working on 802.15.4 integration into OpenWRT/LEDE system. In
OpenWRT/LEDE man can build 802.11 wireless network with hostapd,
wpa_supplicant, netifd and LuCI interface, which I would like also to
do with 802.15.4. Thus I did similar things like iwpaninfo and adding
802.15.4 support to netifd. With these man can config 802.15.4
interfaces. Now I am looking for applications to build a 802.15.4
network like hostapd and wpa_supplicant. Can you give me some advises
?
If I understand this correctly you want to send out beacons to announce a
15.4 network and do basic PAN coordinator tasks like handing out short
addresses and keeping track of devices within the PAN. Is that correct?
Correct.
We do not have this functionality right now. All communication is
ad-hoc and
based knowing network parameters like channel, etc.
Various steps are needed to get to the functionality you are looking
for. 1)
Add support for MAC command frames for network management, 2) add support
for beacon frames 3) expose a netlink UAPI to act as a PAN coordinator and
4) a coordinator daemon in userspace.
That sounds complicated. 🤔
It is a big bunch of work indeed.
With your work on various drivers you might have your hands full already. :)
Some more information about this can be found at our todo list SoftMAC
section and the linked github issues.
https://github.com/linux-wpan/wpan-tools/wiki/todo
regards
Stefan Schmidt
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