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*Maycon Maia Vitali* (aka 0ut0fBound)
Offensive Security Certified Expert (OSCE)
Security Researcher @ Hack'n Roll
http://maycon.hacknroll.com
Hack'n Roll



2012/4/17 <[email protected]>

> Dear all.
>
> I am trying to install the driver for Blip 2.0 in a computer with
> constrained resources in order to communicate it with the mote BaseStation
> (telosb). I managed to run Blip 1.0 with sheevaplug (based on ARM) but for
> Blip 2.0 is a bit complicated. So I have a question.
>
> The pppd come by default with tinyos-2.x or my computer must have
> installed it before run Blip 2.0?
>

The pppd is a common tool on linux OS. Each distribution has a simples way
to instasll it.


>
> According to the tutorials, I can't do :
>
> pppd debug passive noauth nodetach 115200 /dev/ttyUSB0 nocrtscts nocdtrcts
> lcp-echo-interval 0 noccp noip ipv6 ::23,::24
>
>
You need to install ppp tool. On ArchLinux I did pacman -S ppp and got
installed.


> Thanks in advance,
>
> Alejandro.
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Daniel Bimschas <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi list,
> >>
> >> I've read http://www.tinyos.net/tinyos-2.1.0/doc/html/tep113.html and I
> >> want to make sure that I understood everything correctly / ask some
> >> questions:
> >>
> >> 1) SerialP CRC field: The guide says "CR = Two-byte CRC over S to end of
> >> Payload: SerialP". Does this mean that the CRC includes the S (sequence
> >> number) field?
> >>
> >
> > That was my understanding but from taking a close look at the source
> code,
> > it looks like it also includes the Proto byte in front of the sequence
> > field.   And the CRC should include the PROTO byte too.
> >
> > Phil is that correct?
> >
> >
> >> 2) The SerialP documentation states that PC-to-mote communication
> >> can/does
> >> use acknowledgements.
> >>
> >
> > I've never understood the SerialP ack implementation.  Not sure exactly
> > what it does or how it works.
> >
> >
> >>  a) Are acknowledgements mandatory or optional?
> >>
> >
> > From what I've seen they are optional.   I've got serial communications
> > (transmit only from the mote) and there is nothing on the other side that
> > is sending asks back.
> >
> >  b) I can't find out how the acknowledgments are represented in the
> packet
> >> format (3.6). How do you request an acknowledgment? Are they always
> >> send?
> >>  c) How does the actual acknowledgment message look like (packet
> >> format)?
> >>
> >
> > Not sure but I suspect that it uses just the Proto field and the sequence
> > number.   If they are actually used, it would be good if it were properly
> > documented.
> >
> >
> > 3) The SerialP description states "SerialP uses SerialFrameComm to send a
> >> delimiter between frames". Does this mean that a fragmented packet on
> >> application layer will result in several packets encapsulated in
> >> HdlcTranslateC, using different sequence number fields in the SerialP
> >> payload of HdlcTranslateC?
> >>
> >
> > SerialP and the AM layer does not do any fragmentation.   There is no
> > fragmentation implemented.   It is one of the reasons I'm interested in
> > the
> > 6lowpan IPv6 implementation.  The problem is IPv6 is rather fat and I'm
> > almost out of space on my mote.
> >
> >
> >> 4) The SerialP description states "SerialP uses SerialFrameComm to send
> >> a
> >> delimiter between frames, a serial-level type field, [...]".
> >>  a) Is the "serial-level type field" the same field as "P = Protocol
> >> byte:
> >> SerialP" in "3.6 Packet Format"? Or is this referring to "D = Packet
> >> format
> >> dispatch byte: SerialDispatcherC"?
> >>
> >
> > I believe the "serial-level type field" being referred  to is the type
> > field that is part of the payload.   If D is 0 then the Payload is an
> > Active Message packet and the payload looks like
> >
> > dst src len grp type data
> >
> > The example packet in the TEP is wrong.   It says that the packet looks
> > like:
> >
> > 7e 40 09 00 be ef 05 7d 5d 06 01 02 03 04 05 7e
> >
> > It is missing the SRC field which is normally is included.   And it is
> > also
> > missing the CRC.   Given a dispatch byte of 00 the following data is an
> AM
> > packet and should have dst, src, len, grp, am_type, data.   The low level
> > serial encapsulation doesn't have any inherent addressing.    So as soon
> > as
> > the example starts to talk about a destination address and given that the
> > dispatch byte is a 0, it is talking about the AM encapsulation.
> >
> >
> >>  b) In case the "serial-level type field" is not the same as "P =
> >> Protocol
> >> byte: SerialP": What's the purpose of P? What values can it take?
> >>
> >
> > P is different than the serial-level type field.   It can have...
> >
> > 67 PROTO_ACK
> > 68 PROTO_PACKET_ACK
> > 69 PROTO_PACKET_NOACK
> >
> > The whole protocol is underspecified so I have no idea how it works or
> > what
> > these values do.   The only one that seems to currently be implemented is
> > PROTO_PACKET_ACK.
> >
> > But like I said above it is unclear to me how the ack mechanism works.
> I
> > think it is used as flow control in one direction only.... (host to mote,
> > ie. when the mote receives).
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> =======
> >> Some background why I'm asking these questions:
> >>
> >> I'm currently developing TinyOS support for the WISEBED wireless sensor
> >> network testbeds (see. http://wisebed.eu). The specific function is
> that
> >> the testbed backend shall be able to read individual packets from the
> >> nodes
> >> stream and forward the individual packets to the remote experimenter
> >> using
> >> the testbed.
> >>
> >
> > Okay.  I don't see why you want to expose yourself to the low level
> serial
> > protocols on the mote or going between the host and mote.   It is really
> > ugly and was a quick and dirty implementation to get simple
> communications
> > working.   It isn't well documented nor very well specified.
> >
> > Rather it looks like you probably want to actually start at a higher
> level
> > and want to interface to a gateway function of some sort.  Check out
> > TinyOS's SerialForwarder, support/sdk/c/sf.    I've also reimplemented
> > using sockets in motenet.   Motenet can be found in support/sdk/c/motenet
> > but you have to get it from the tinyprod sources located at
> > github.com/tp-freeforall/prod(motenet-rel)
> > [README]<
> https://github.com/tp-freeforall/prod/blob/motenet_rel/support/sdk/c/motenet/README
> >
> > .
> >
> > Motenet provides a sockets interface to AM packets on the motenet/host
> > gateway.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> As our testbed backend implementation (see
> >> https://github.com/itm/testbed-runtime) is based on Java and uses
> >> framing/deframing algorithms implemented using the Netty framework (see
> >> http://netty.io) I need to re-implement the (de-)framing algorithms
> used
> >> for the TinyOS serial communication.
> >>
> >
> > I don't understand your conclusion.   Actually it seems to me that you
> > need
> > to be able to receive frames from the motenet and be able to inject
> > packets
> > into the motenet.   What does that have to do with reimplementing
> > framing/deframing algorithms?
> >
> > Look at the serial forwarder and take a look at motenet  (libmotenet,
> >  support/sdk/c/motenet).   Perhaps you'll see what I'm getting at.
> >
> >
> >> =======
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Daniel Bimschas
> >>
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