From: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
To: Jukka Rissanen <jukka.rissanen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about IPv6 neighbor discovery and 6lowpan
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:34:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131121153414.GA9960@omega> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1385046178.2723.17.camel@jrissane-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com>
Hi Jukka,
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 05:02:58PM +0200, Jukka Rissanen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am investigating RFC 6775 (Neighbor Discovery Optimization for IPv6
> over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs))
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6775
>
> The RFC suggests some changes to neighbor discovery procedure for the
> 6LoWPAN networks. I was looking net/ipv6/ndisc.c and it seems that
> ARPHRD type (from type field in net_device struct) is the only way to
> detect and change the discovery procedure in the ndisc.c code. Am I
> right with this assumption here?
>
I think you are right, there was some patches on linux-zigbee-devel who
use exact the same idea to check the ARPHRD type.
But I am investigating for rfc6775, too. :-)
At the moment I see too many unsolved issues in the ieee802154/6lowpan
implementation which should be fixed at first. :(
- Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-21 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-21 15:02 Question about IPv6 neighbor discovery and 6lowpan Jukka Rissanen
2013-11-21 15:34 ` Alexander Aring [this message]
2013-11-21 15:52 ` Jukka Rissanen
2013-11-21 16:13 ` Alexander Aring
2013-11-22 3:29 ` Marcel Holtmann
2013-11-22 5:30 ` Alexander Aring
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