From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, dbaryshkov@gmail.com, slapin@ossfans.org
Subject: Re: 6LoWPAN basic support
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:07:03 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110818.220703.2167958273578893796.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJmB2rDEyzaAb4zsuhbr_XY=4BFzHv9zwYtA5BHQzO4R8tuZ2Q@mail.gmail.com>
From: Alexander Smirnov <alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:38:08 +0400
> Hello all,
>
> the following patch adds basic support for 6LoWPAN techology.
> This is an implementation of ipv6 header compression according
> RFC4944 which allows transmit data over IEEE802.15.4 networks
> using IPv6 stack.
>
> Currently it's only basic support which works with packet size less
> than 128 bytes. In this patch 6LoWPAN is implemented as midle-layer
> between IEEE802.15.4 and IPv6 stacks.
>
> Features supported:
> 1. TCP header compression;
> 2. Neighbour discovery.
>
> The following features are going to be implemented:
> 1. Fragmentation (the MTU of IEEE802.15.4 is 128 bytes);
> 2. UDP and NextHeader compression;
> 3. Context-based compression.
Would be nice to see some review from Dmitry and Sergey since they
are the listed maintainers of 802.15.4
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-19 5:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-16 18:38 6LoWPAN basic support Alexander Smirnov
2011-08-16 18:36 ` [PATCH] [IEEE802.15.4] " Alexander Smirnov
2011-08-25 2:36 ` David Miller
2011-08-19 5:07 ` David Miller [this message]
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