Re: about openthread and 6lowpan

[Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>]

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Sujay G <sujay.g@hcl.com> wrote:
    > I have been testing openThread on Docker. I wanted to use 6Lowpan with
    > openthread.  I assumed openThread would interact with wpan interfaces
    > and added wpan interfaces in container namespace but it did not work.

    > Then I came across change for 6Lowpan.  Comparison yielded changes in 7
    > files vs the latest openThread repositiry
    > github.com/openthread/openthread/compare/master...linux-wpan:af802154

Why are you asking the linux-wpan ML about openthread patches? :-)

Alex did some patches to make openthread work better with the virtual
interfaces... it's up to the openthread people to adopt them or not.

    > I manually merged the files and am trying to resolve the errors.

    > Had few queries regarding the openThread and 6Lowpan

    > Why was the project (af802154) abandoned ?  Was openThread working with
    > the above 6Lowpan changes ?  Does the current openThread stack support
    > 6Lowpan ? any configuration needs to be enabled ?  or is it the right
    > way to port the af802154 to current implementation of openthread ?

You could rebase it, and maybe you have more influence with the
openthread people than we do.

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