From: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
To: Jukka Rissanen <jukka.rissanen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Simon Vincent <simon.vincent@xsilon.com>,
linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org, varkabhadram@gmail.com,
marcel@holtmann.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-wpan 0/3] Fix handling of skbs of type PACKET_OTHERHOST
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 12:58:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141002105842.GC20337@omega> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141002105118.GB20337@omega>
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 12:51:18PM +0200, Alexander Aring wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 01:12:44PM +0300, Jukka Rissanen wrote:
> >
> > Hmm, bluetooth 6lowpan is a bit different from ieee802154 as the
> > bluetooth link is a point-to-point one and typically only uses link
> > local addresses so normally every packet is really meant for that host.
> >
>
> mhh, when it's point-to-point, how can multicast work? Okay, maybe it's
> some broadcast/multicast over point-to-point communication.
>
mhh, seems to be something like that. I mean [0] should describe it how
it works. Maybe detect this mechanism then you know "it's multicast"
and set the pkt_type. I am not an expert for this stuff right now.
Salves and masters, you yes it's very different than 802.15.4, we have
broadcast frames.
- Alex
[0] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6lowpan-btle-12#section-3.2.4
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-02 10:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-02 8:56 [PATCH linux-wpan 0/3] Fix handling of skbs of type PACKET_OTHERHOST Simon Vincent
2014-10-02 8:56 ` [PATCH linux-wpan 1/3] 6lowpan: Ensure pkt_type is not lost Simon Vincent
2014-10-02 9:16 ` Alexander Aring
2014-10-02 8:56 ` [PATCH linux-wpan 2/3] ieee802154: " Simon Vincent
2014-10-02 8:56 ` [PATCH linux-wpan 3/3] ieee802154: 6lowpan: Drop PACKET_OTHERHOST skbs in 6lowpan Simon Vincent
2014-10-02 9:29 ` Alexander Aring
2014-10-05 18:17 ` Alexander Aring
2014-10-02 9:15 ` [PATCH linux-wpan 0/3] Fix handling of skbs of type PACKET_OTHERHOST Alexander Aring
2014-10-02 9:28 ` Alexander Aring
2014-10-02 9:36 ` Simon Vincent
2014-10-02 9:43 ` Jukka Rissanen
2014-10-02 9:54 ` Alexander Aring
2014-10-02 9:58 ` Alexander Aring
2014-10-02 10:12 ` Jukka Rissanen
2014-10-02 10:22 ` Alexander Aring
2014-10-02 10:37 ` Alexander Aring
2014-10-02 10:39 ` Simon Vincent
2014-10-02 10:43 ` Alexander Aring
2014-10-02 10:51 ` Alexander Aring
2014-10-02 10:58 ` Alexander Aring [this message]
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