Re: Bridging a lowpan interface

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Hi,

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Alexander Aring <aring@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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].
>

btw: we need short address handling for this... because 2 types of mac
addresses is not really supported by net core api and currently we
handle this _very_ 802.15.4 interface specific. Just you know about...
that you run into issues with that (When you not solve it). Patches
are welcome always!

- Alex
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