Re: 802.15.4G support?

[Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>]

Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com> wrote:
    > You want to run 6LoWPAN on it, current the 802.15.4 calculates a lot of
    > stuff with the IEEE802154_MTU define, in most cases when using
    > fragmentation.

    > It seems you don't need fragmentation in your case, because you reach
    > the 1280 minimum MTU for IPv6. The condition at [4] should be always
    > true then.

I believe that they do, as 15.4g PHYs can communicate with 15.4 PHYs, and
so the fragment on/off/MTU decision will need to be added to the neighbour
cache.

    > Another question would be: You can run 6LoWPAN on it, but nobody
    > specifies to run 6LoWPAN on such "SUN PHY's". I actually don't see
    > that. Everything is specified with 127 MTU.

    > I don't want to tell you cannot run 6LoWPAN on it, but does somebody
    > need to specify 6LoWPAN for 802.15.4g at first?

WiSun alliance did that, I think.

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