[Tinyos-devel] b6lowpan stack release

[Philip Levis]

On Jul 15, 2008, at 9:20 PM, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty wrote:

> Hi All--
>
> I'm happy to say that the Berkeley 6lowpan stack I've been developing
> has been released into contrib . The stack is still undergoing active
> development, but I think it's good enough to be useful to play around
> with for people who are interested in IP.  Features include IP/UDP
> header compression using HC (currently an internet-draft),
> fragmentation, and multi-hop IP routing (provided by an LQI-based
> multi-tree to a router and source routing up the tree).  Standard
> tools like ping6, tracert6, and nc6 all work with the stack; it's also
> possible to make your sensor network publicly routeable.  Missing
> pieces include support for IEEE-64 addressing, and support for radios
> other then the cc2420, among others...
>
> If I've piqued your interest, there is more documentation on the
> project wiki at
> http://smote.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/tracenv/wiki/b6loWPAN and (of
> course) the code in tinyos-2.x-contrib/berkeley/b6lowpan.  If there's
> something you like or hate, or have questions, I'm interested.
> However, I will be out of the country for the next week so I can't
> promise I'll be quick to respond.

Very cool. It would be great to see how best to get this into the main  
tree post-2.1.

Phil