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From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>
To: Alexander Aring <aar@pengutronix.de>
Cc: linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org, kernel@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 bluetooth-next 3/8] ieee802154: 6lowpan: fix intra pan id check
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 07:24:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14582.1469532248@obiwan.sandelman.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4f73efde-c6f8-c7e9-dcc9-1efbf42025cb@pengutronix.de>

Alexander Aring <aar@pengutronix.de> wrote:
    > I had some dicussion at IETF that the destination pan id could be
    > different than the source pan. So we need to change it "again" to remove
    > it. :-)

    > On rx side:
    > - dst pan id can be everything (also 0xfff?)
    > - src pan cannot be 0xffff, which should be filtered before reaching
    > packet layer.

    > On tx side:
    > - We some mechanism to tell the destination pan, we need anyway a
    > 6lowpan netlink api, so we could add 802.15.4 6lowpan option on it,
    > to change the destination panid per interface.

    > Or we do what vlan does:

    > # ip link add link eth0 name eth0.100 type vlan id 100

    > e.g.

    > # ip link add link wpan0 name lowpan0 type lowpan pan id 0xbeef

    > which can be handled by ip plugin command stuff.

I suggest that panid be handled in the same way as vlan tags: by creating new
virtual lowpanX interfaces.   That requires some work below...

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-07-26 11:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-06 21:32 [PATCHv4 bluetooth-next 0/8] ieee802154: pending/new fixes and cleanup/features Alexander Aring
2016-07-06 21:32 ` [PATCHv4 bluetooth-next 1/8] ieee802154: add ieee802154_skb_dst_pan helper Alexander Aring
2016-07-06 21:32 ` [PATCHv4 bluetooth-next 2/8] ieee802154: add ieee802154_skb_src_pan helper Alexander Aring
2016-07-06 21:32 ` [PATCHv4 bluetooth-next 3/8] ieee802154: 6lowpan: fix intra pan id check Alexander Aring
2016-07-23 11:03   ` Alexander Aring
2016-07-25  6:31     ` Alexander Aring
2016-07-26 11:24       ` Michael Richardson
2016-07-26 11:24     ` Michael Richardson [this message]
2016-07-06 21:32 ` [PATCHv4 bluetooth-next 4/8] ieee802154: fix skb get fc on big endian Alexander Aring
2016-07-06 21:32 ` [PATCHv4 bluetooth-next 5/8] 6lowpan: ndisc: set invalid unicast short addr to unspec Alexander Aring
2016-07-06 21:32 ` [PATCHv4 bluetooth-next 6/8] atusb: don't change csma settings while set channel Alexander Aring
2016-07-06 21:32 ` [PATCHv4 bluetooth-next 7/8] ieee802154: cleanup WARN_ON for fc fetch Alexander Aring
2016-07-08 11:23   ` Stefan Schmidt
2016-07-06 21:32 ` [PATCHv4 bluetooth-next 8/8] fakelb: allow to run as monitor Alexander Aring
2016-07-08 11:25   ` Stefan Schmidt
2016-07-08 11:24 ` [PATCHv4 bluetooth-next 0/8] ieee802154: pending/new fixes and cleanup/features Marcel Holtmann

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