[Tinyos-help] PACKET_LINK and BaseStation

[Alan Marchiori]

Hi,

My app is using PACKET_LINK for cc2420 (telosb) (tinyos v2.0.2).  I am
also using the standard BaseStation code for my basestation with
CC2420_NO_ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CC2420_NO_ADDRESS_RECOGNITION __UNSET__.  I
assign the basestation address 0 and it serves as the coordinator node
for the network through a custom SerialForwarder and application.  I
want the basestation to act just like any other node in the network
(w.r.t. packet address recognition, PACKET_LINK acks, etc).

The problem I have been seeing is everything works for a little while
(~10-20 packets?) then after this time no nodes in the network RX any
packets, even though I am sending packets through the basestation.  I
even added a snooping rcvr and it also doesn't see any packets after
some amount of time.

One part I don't fully understand is how the PACKET_LINK layer
interacts with the basestation?  I did compile BaseStation with
PACKET_LINK defined, but is there something else I need to do?  Or do
I have to implement the packet link layer on the PC side of the
basestation (and undefine PACKET_LINK in the basestation code?)?

Thanks,
Alan