On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:39 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:02 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:47 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> BTW, the 6lowpan support I did a long time ago was a port of the >>>>> 6lowpan code out of Contiki and onto Linux. Did that code end up being >>>>> the basis for 6lowpan support in linux-zigbee? I got pulled onto >>>>> another project and lost track. >>>> >>>> Basically yes, Alexander did a lot of cleanup and fixes to your code and >>>> pushed >>>> that to mainline Linux. Probably he could comment on the status better. >>> >>> There are two RPL implementations I know of: >>> https://github.com/mcr/unstrung >>> and the one in Contiki >>> >>> What's the status of getting RPL support into mainline? >> >> After a glance on RPL drafts I thought that RPL implementation >> should live in userspace, doesn't it? It is a routing protocol, >> which should be handled by routing daemons, probably >> not by the kernel itself. If so, you can use that mcr on >> top of Linux'es 6lowpan implementation. > > You are getting out of areas I am familiar with in Linux. Would RPL > on Linux work like OLSR does? OLSR talks between nodes in user space > add. And then adds/deletes routes in the kernel based on those > conversations.
Yes. If I understand it correctly. RPL works on top of IPv6 ICMP messages. And while it probably can be made useful for other protocols as well, I don't see a point in doing that. -- With best wishes Dmitry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Linux-zigbee-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-zigbee-devel
