I like the idea of sending periodic DIS messages but I absolutely believe that it should not only be optional but that it be configurable at runtime.
Honestly, I am a firm believe in the idea that virtually anything like this should be runtime configurable as long as such configurability doesn't adversely effect battery life, code complexity/readability, etcetera in a massive way. This is something that Linus has absolutely right with Linux; policy don't shouldn't be written in kernel space stone; everyone had different requirements and altering the way an OS behaves from the (sensible) defaults shouldn't require altering mainline code and maintaining a private branch if at all possible. Ideally everything should be runtime configurable, if that's not possible it should be configurable at boot, if that for some reason isn't possible it should be compile time configurable. On Wed, May 20, 2015, 11:53 PM Joakim Gebart <joakim.geb...@eistec.se> wrote: > > On May 21, 2015 8:37 AM, "Cenk Gündogan" <cenk.guendo...@fu-berlin.de> > wrote: > > > > Hey Adam, > > > > I am currently adopting RPL to our new network stack and while doing so, > > I also added sane functionalities which were plainly missing in the old > implementation. > > This also includes sending a DIS when initializing RPL for the first > time. > > However, I am just now realizing that such a DIS can get lost in our > typical LLN case - it may make sense to send a DIS periodically until a DIO > is received? > > Does anyone has an opinion on this? > > Good idea, as long as the periodic interval is large enough to not waste > power or cause interruptions in normal traffic if there is no other rpl > node on the network. > > > > > Forcing a DIS from userspace sounds like a good feature. It may help in > testing/debuging the dodag tree interactively. > > I also thought about reseting the trickle timer from userspace to > enforce DIOs. > > +1 for this. It would be nice to have some shell commands to call these > functions too. > > Best regards, > /Joakim > > > > > Cheers, > > Cenk > > > > > > On 21.05.2015 04:36, Adam Hunt wrote: > >> > >> That's great. Is there any way to force a node to send a DIS message > from userspace? > >> > >> > >> On Wed, May 20, 2015, 5:34 PM Oleg Hahm <oliver.h...@inria.fr> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi Adam! > >>> > >>> > Has anyone tested the amount of time it takes for a node (full or > reduced > >>> > function) to join an RPL routed 6lowpan network? I realize that it's > very > >>> > likely to vary quite a bit depending on the network, I'm just > curious if > >>> > anyone has an approximate range. > >>> > >>> As you said: it depends quite a bit on the network and the parameters. > Since > >>> nodes on the current RPL implementation won't send proactively DIS > messages > >>> and the interval of sending DIOs increases, it will usually take just > a couple > >>> of seconds if you try to join the network right after bootup, but can > take > >>> more than one minute in a later phase. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Oleg > >>> -- > >>> printk (KERN_ERR "%s: Oops - your private data area is hosed!\n", ...) > >>> linux-2.6.6/drivers/net/ewrk3.c > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> devel mailing list > >>> devel@riot-os.org > >>> https://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> devel mailing list > >> devel@riot-os.org > >> https://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > devel mailing list > > devel@riot-os.org > > https://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel@riot-os.org > https://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >
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