[mc1322x] 6LowPAN data payload

[Joakim Eriksson]

Ok, so it does not stop waiting when you start tunslip6?

Tunslip is supposed to send a prefix to the border-router, and
then it should start.

Best regards,
-- Joakim Eriksson, SICS

Daniel Berenguer skrev 2010-07-18 09:34:
> OK, so should border-router wait for the prefix until tunslip6 is
> started... ? This is not the case.
>
> Daniel.
>
>
> On 18 July 2010 00:52, Joakim Eriksson<joakime at sics.se>  wrote:
>> Hello Daniel,
>>
>> The prefix is for enabling autoconfiguration of a full IPv6 address
>> (without hardcoding anything) for all nodes connecting to the network
>> and to the border-router.
>>
>> the full IP is:<prefix>:<802.15.4 MAC address>.
>>
>> You will set the prefix if you start the tunslip6 program.
>> (or you hard-code a prefix instead).
>>
>> Best regards,
>> -- Joakim Eriksson, SICS
>>
>> Daniel Berenguer skrev 2010-07-18 00:45:
>>>
>>> Thanks Mar and George.
>>>
>>> I've finally tested udp-server on my first Econotag with udp-client on
>>> my second Econotag and everything seems to work just fine. Then,
>>> uploading border-router into the first Econotag (instead of
>>> udp-server) disgraces the whole thing:
>>>
>>> slip_input_callback is never called after calling slip_send() from
>>> request_prefix() in border-router.c
>>> As result, border-router gets blocked in the "Request prefix" loop so
>>> it will even never respond to a "global repair" button press.
>>>
>>> PROCESS_THREAD(border_router_process, ev, data)
>>> {
>>> ...
>>>    /* Request prefix until it has been received */
>>>    while(!prefix_set) {
>>>      etimer_set(&et, CLOCK_SECOND);
>>>      request_prefix();
>>>      PROCESS_WAIT_EVENT_UNTIL(etimer_expired(&et));
>>>    }
>>> ...
>>>
>>> What is the purpose of "requesting the prefix" in border-router?
>>> Sorry, I know this is an IPv6-related question but I've found very
>>> little information in the net.
>>>
>>> Daniel.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 15 July 2010 23:31, George Lu<lu at goodxense.com>    wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Mariano Alvira<mar at devl.org>    wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you guys know about the global repair button? Pressing S3, KBI0-4
>>>>> button does "Initiating global repair", which should refresh the
>>>>> routes etc...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I had tried the global repair button a while ago. Also had a modified
>>>> rpl-border-router.c that would initiate global repair periodically. I
>>>> didn't
>>>> find it effective. But then that was before the big improvement that came
>>>> with increasing NUM_PACKETS to 32.
>>>> George
>>>
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