It's doesn't specifically say you can, but then again it doesn't specifically say you can't, it's just my interpretation :) It makes sense that you would only send uncompressed if the packet is small anyway so I'll park this one unless we find a 6lowpan implementation that does this.
-Martin On 24/07/14 10:28, Alexander Aring wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:07:09AM +0100, Martin Townsend wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >From what I can read from 4944 you should be allowed to receive >> >uncompressed IPv6 packets that have a 6lowpan fragmentation header which I >> >don't think we currently do. >> I have a patch waiting to allow this but was wondering if I am right in this >> assumption. >> > can you please cite the necessary part of information from rfc4944? Then > I can take a look. > > > What I know is: > > We have a dispatch value which allow to receive uncompressed IPv6 > packets. This could we use if the compression isn't necessary and the > whole IPv6 packet fits into 127 MTU inclusive mac header, then > compression makes no sense. > > At the moment we handle this in the receiving part but, not in the > sending part [0]. We always compress the IPv6 header, should be easy to > implement it... but this isn't on my ToDo priority list on top10. > > > [0] > https://github.com/linux-wpan/linux-wpan-next/blob/master/net/ieee802154/6lowpan_rtnl.c#L480 > > - Alex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Linux-zigbee-devel mailing list Linux-zigbee-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-zigbee-devel
