Hi,

On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 10:20 PM Alexander Aring [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 5:35 AM Miquel Raynal [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hello,
These three patches allow the creation of coordinator interfaces, which
were already defined without being usable. The idea behind is to use
them advertizing PANs through the beaconing feature.

I still don't know how exactly those "leaves" and "non-leaves" are
acting here regarding the coordinator interfaces. If this is just a
bit here to set in the interface I am fine with it. But yea,
"relaying" feature is a project on its own, as we said previously.

Another mail I was asking myself what a node interface is then,
currently it is a mesh interface with none of those 802.15.4 PAN
management functionality? Or can it act also as a "leave"
coordinator... I am not sure about that.

However I think we can think about something scheduled later as we can
still decide later if we really want that "node" can do that.
Regarding to 6LoWPAN I think the current type what "node" interface is
as a just a node in a mesh is required, it might depends on if you
want routing on IP or "relaying" on MAC (mesh-over vs mesh-under), but

*route-over

I never saw mesh-under in 6LoWPAN.

we will see how that works, because you can actually run a 6lowpan
interface on the new coordinator type.

- Alex