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Stefan Schmidt <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?
> We do not have this functionality right now. All communication is
> ad-hoc and based knowing network parameters like channel, etc.
I feel that perhaps linux-wpan@ is not a focused enough group to actually get
this work done. Perhaps we simply lack a bit of common marketing?
Maybe a silly single page web site with the ubiquitous "fork me on github"
banner. Maybe that already exists and is poorly marketed such that I don't
even know about it.
> 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.
At this point, I don't quite recall the summary of solutions that we came
home from NetDev with. I meant to watch the video to learn what we said :-)
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