netdev - Re: 6LoWPAN basic support

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Date:	Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:07:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alex.bluesman.smirnov@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dbaryshkov@...il.com, slapin@...fans.org
Subject: Re: 6LoWPAN basic support

From: Alexander Smirnov <alex.bluesman.smirnov@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:38:08 +0400

> Hello all,
> 
> the following patch adds basic support for 6LoWPAN techology.
> This is an implementation of ipv6 header compression according
> RFC4944 which allows transmit data over IEEE802.15.4 networks
> using IPv6 stack.
> 
> Currently it's only basic support which works with packet size less
> than 128 bytes. In this patch 6LoWPAN is implemented as midle-layer
> between IEEE802.15.4 and IPv6 stacks.
> 
> Features supported:
> 1. TCP header compression;
> 2. Neighbour discovery.
> 
> The following features are going to be implemented:
> 1. Fragmentation (the MTU of IEEE802.15.4 is 128 bytes);
> 2. UDP and NextHeader compression;
> 3. Context-based compression.

Would be nice to see some review from Dmitry and Sergey since they
are the listed maintainers of 802.15.4
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