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From: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
To: Jukka Rissanen <jukka.rissanen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org, linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 6lowpan status
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 09:26:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140902072627.GB25800@omega> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140902071214.GA25800@omega>

> > > 
> > > The 802.15.4 mac layer has some neighbor discovery issues which are not
> > > solved currently. It's about two kinds of mac addresses, for bluetooth
> > > it should be fine. A small description about this problem is here [1].
> > > 
> > > We need some way to trigger 6LoWPAN/Layer 2 data across the IPv6 layer
> > > and this isn't easy. Everything what we do on runtime decisions makes
> > > the IPv6 stack slower and we should avoid that.
> > 
> > Yep, agreed.
> > 
> 
> That's the big challenge to make an acceptable mainline solution. :-)
> 
> At the end it should be acked by IPv6 community, they should scream if a
> solution makes runtime decisions which slower down the stack too much.
> 

btw. I need L2 data in the neighbor discovery cache to handle the "two
kinds mac addresses". I will try to find a way after the rework of the mac
layer. This was discussed at [0].

- Alex

[0] http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=140724093516806&w=2

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-02  7:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1409567774.3120.57.camel@jrissane-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com>
2014-09-01 11:38 ` 6lowpan status Alexander Aring
2014-09-02  6:08   ` Jukka Rissanen
2014-09-02  7:12     ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-02  7:26       ` Alexander Aring [this message]
2014-09-02 14:21         ` 6lowpan raw socket problems Simon Vincent
2014-09-02 14:43           ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-02 14:51             ` Simon Vincent
2014-09-02 15:18               ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-02 15:37               ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-02 16:06                 ` Simon Vincent
2014-09-02 16:26                   ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-02 18:53                     ` Martin Townsend
2014-09-08 10:43                       ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-17 13:30                         ` Simon Vincent
2014-09-17 13:57                           ` Alexander Aring
     [not found]                             ` <5419A9DD.5070804@xsilon.com>
2014-09-17 16:03                               ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-17 16:17                                 ` Alexander Aring
2014-09-18  7:55                                   ` Simon Vincent

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