From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: 6LoWPAN basic support Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:07:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20110818.220703.2167958273578893796.davem@davemloft.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, dbaryshkov@gmail.com, slapin@ossfans.org To: alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:50128 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751630Ab1HSFHN (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2011 01:07:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Alexander Smirnov 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