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Subject: Re: 6lowpan with external radio
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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To: Henning Rogge <hrogge@gmail.com>
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Hi Henning,

> I am working with an external VHF radio attached over a serial
> connection (USB serial at the moment) and looking for a way to use the
> Linux 6lowpan stack with this radio.
> 
> Is there a way to get a TUN/TAP equivalent for 6lowpan, just getting
> the raw frames back through a socket into userspace?

there is no interface for this. You will need to build an interface to create 6LoWPAN network devices from userspace and allow reading/writing from it.

Regards

Marcel