Re: Bridging a lowpan interface

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Hi Alex,

Thanks for the pointers, will look into this further.

Cheers,
--
David

> On 12 Nov 2017, at 01:09, Alexander Aring <aring@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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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