Re: Bridging a lowpan interface

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Hi,

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 5:59 PM, David Palma <david.palma@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 11 Nov 2017, at 19:53, Michael Richardson <mcr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> David Palma <david.palma@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I'm all for routing and starting with RPL is fine. However, the idea
>>> was also to enable traffic differentiation based on flows (the SDN
>>> part), without breaking them, and not only based on IP
>>> addresses. That's why I mentioned that I used routing and ip6tables.
>>
>> I don't understand what the problem is.
>> What would you do with bridged interfaces in an SDN?
>
> For example, if you use Open vSwitch for the SDN part, you add an interface to a bridge and manage flows from there.
>
>> What kind of breaking are you speaking of?
>
> By breaking I mean, for example:
> - establish a CoAP transaction with DTLS through one interface/network (e.g. .11, fd03::120)

Check out ndisc proxy for IPv6.

There is no automatically handling for that inside the kernel (please
send-patches, somebody wanted already such feature). What I mean for
IPv4 yes, but for IPv6 you need a daemon like [0].

- Alex

[0] https://github.com/DanielAdolfsson/ndppd
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