Re: [6tisch] plugfest synchronization point 1

[Xavier Vilajosana Guillen <[e-mail]>]

Hi Pascal, this sounds awesome!! Let's see if we can hook some motes there
:-)
X


On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) <
[e-mail]> wrote:

>  Hello Xavi:
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> Cisco's contribution to the plugfest will be a demo of the backbone router
> functionality as presented at IETF 86 in Orlando, limited to the 6LoWPAN ND
> registration (RFC 6775).
>
> I will have a sneak preview of efficient ND support (WiND) for those
> interested. The code will run on an IE3K industrial switch. The idea is to
> interface with one or more 6TiSCH root node(s) over Ethernet.
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> In order to connect to the switch acting as backbone router, the root node
> will need to implement RFC 6775 or WiND to advertise (towards the switch)
> any device that it learns (e.g. through RPL DAO) from the 15.4e TSCH side.
>
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> The root will use its own MAC address (the address on the Ethernet
> connection to the switch) as SLLA in the registration, but present a real
> unique identifier for each device in the 64-bit unique ID that it will need
> to infer in some fashion (sadly RPL is missing the unique ID, but if all
> the addresses are based on EUI 64 then that can be done in a trivial
> fashion). The dependency is that a same device claiming a same address must
> always appear with the same unique ID, otherwise the registration may be
> rejected as duplicate if it happens within lifetime.
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> The IE3K switch will act as 6LR on its SVI interface, and register the
> device. It will also defend the IPv6 address of the device on the Ethernet
> side using the root MAC address (the SLLA in the NS(ARO)).
>
> As such, the demo will implement
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thubert-6lowpan-backbone-router-03#section-5.2"ND Proxy Operations" and will enable a PC connected over Ethernet to ping
> a 6TiSCH device effectively forming a single heterogeneous multilink subnet.
>
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> So far, we are in line with the plan. Anyone interested to connect is
> certainly welcome!
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> Cheers,
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> Pascal
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> *From:* 6tisch [mailto:[e-mail]] *On Behalf Of *Xavier
> Vilajosana Guillen
> *Sent:* jeudi 6 février 2014 21:34
> *To:* [e-mail]
> *Subject:* [6tisch] plugfest synchronization point 1
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> Dear all,
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> we reached the first synchronization point. I would like to call to
> plugfest participants to provide a very quick status update and raise any
> possible problem during the 6TiSCH call tomorrow. We will have some minutes
> during the call to talk about that and start some planning.
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>
>
> regards,
> Xavi
>