[net2-wg] blip - windows / linux

[Martin Turon]

While it may not be worth blocking the initial release on it, I think
there is enough historical momentum behind developing on TinyOS under
cygwin/win32 to justify adding a windows driver to the blip roadmap.
Another argument in favor of developing such a driver is that it
increases the size of these IPv6 networks to fold PCs into the mix of
valid blip hosts.  The easier it is to make a netbook into a gateway for
6lowpan clusters, the better.

Here are some links that may be helpful to getting a Windows driver
going for blip:

TunTap Driver in OpenVPN: 
   http://www.varsanofiev.com/inside/using_tuntap_under_windows.htm

HttpDisk sample: 
   http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/

Binding to Microsoft Loopback Driver:
   http://support.microsoft.com/kb/839013

A good list of goals for the initial BLIP release is:
	- Simple compile and deploy from T2 core tree.

	- Transport:
		- UDP support
		+ TCP support
		+ Fragmentation

	- Demos:
		- list nodes in network (discovery)
		- ping6 a node
		- tracert6 a node
		+ RESTful http into a node:
			http://[2001:...]/get?values=voltage,unique_id
			http://[2001:...]/set?led=red&sample_rate=600
		+ shell / telnet into a node (http interface likely
better)

	- Platforms:
		- TelosB / MicaZ
		+ Other CC2420: Imote2
		+ Other radios: rf230 / Iris

	- Host Drivers:
		- Linux
		+ Other unix: Darwin Mac OSX
		+ Windows XP/Vista

Martin 

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Martin Turon  |  Crossbow Technology, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: net2-wg-bounces at millennium.berkeley.edu
[mailto:net2-wg-bounces at millennium.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Omprakash
Gnawali
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 11:51 AM
To: net2-wg
Subject: [net2-wg] blip - windows / linux

Is it possible to get a sense of the fraction of users who use Windows
vs Linux/BSD etc from the download log?

This might be relevant for blip release - do we need a windows driver
before the release?

- om_p
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