[net2-wg] blip - windows / linux

[Stephen Dawson-Haggerty]

Looks like a good list.  By fragmentation, do you mean IP fragmentation?

Steve

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Martin Turon <mturon at xbow.com> wrote:
>
> 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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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:net2-wg-bounces at millennium.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Omprakash
> Gnawali
> Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 11:51 AM
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> 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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