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| author | alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com <alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com> | 2011-11-10 07:41:11 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-11-14 00:19:43 -0500 |
| commit | 63ce40e4fd7d68373127a51dd1facef07c93cf4a (patch) | |
| tree | c751a389040df62c0972e957c5a9b591a41c9465 /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | f8b1b5d231c6db03f87e9db195530156fde47c4b (diff) | |
| download | lwn-63ce40e4fd7d68373127a51dd1facef07c93cf4a.tar.gz lwn-63ce40e4fd7d68373127a51dd1facef07c93cf4a.zip | |
6LoWPAN: update documentation
This patch adds chapter to documentation which describes how to use
6lowpan technology.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Smirnov <alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt | 27 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt b/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt index f41ea2405220..1dc1c24a7547 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt @@ -78,3 +78,30 @@ in software. This is currently WIP. See header include/net/mac802154.h and several drivers in drivers/ieee802154/. +6LoWPAN Linux implementation +============================ + +The IEEE 802.15.4 standard specifies an MTU of 128 bytes, yielding about 80 +octets of actual MAC payload once security is turned on, on a wireless link +with a link throughput of 250 kbps or less. The 6LoWPAN adaptation format +[RFC4944] was specified to carry IPv6 datagrams over such constrained links, +taking into account limited bandwidth, memory, or energy resources that are +expected in applications such as wireless Sensor Networks. [RFC4944] defines +a Mesh Addressing header to support sub-IP forwarding, a Fragmentation header +to support the IPv6 minimum MTU requirement [RFC2460], and stateless header +compression for IPv6 datagrams (LOWPAN_HC1 and LOWPAN_HC2) to reduce the +relatively large IPv6 and UDP headers down to (in the best case) several bytes. + +In Semptember 2011 the standard update was published - [RFC6282]. +It deprecates HC1 and HC2 compression and defines IPHC encoding format which is +used in this Linux implementation. + +All the code related to 6lowpan you may find in files: net/ieee802154/6lowpan.* + +To setup 6lowpan interface you need (busybox release > 1.17.0): +1. Add IEEE802.15.4 interface and initialize PANid; +2. Add 6lowpan interface by command like: + # ip link add link wpan0 name lowpan0 type lowpan +3. Set MAC (if needs): + # ip link set lowpan0 address de:ad:be:ef:ca:fe:ba:be +4. Bring up 'lowpan0' interface |