Thanks Martine!
I do need timeout, otherwise I won't know if the node is connected.
Sock is in PR so I prefer not to use it for the moment
2016-09-23 20:37 GMT+02:00 Martine Lenders <m...@martine-lenders.eu>:
> Hi Baptiste,
> that depends on what you mean by reachable. Even for ICMPv6 ping (which is
> used with the shell ping command) you need some "server", that handles the
> request and issues a reply. If that server is not present the node will not
> reply to pings, even if it is reachable in the sense that you can send IPv6
> packets to it and it will handle them (to see what I mean comment out the
> `USEMODULE += gnrc_icmpv6_echo` line in gnrc_networking's Makefile for the
> receiver, you will be able to still send UDP packets, but ping will always
> fail).
>
> If there is a server running somewhere you can just use conn (note that
> timeouts are not possible with conn, if you need them use sock [1] instead
> [which is also a little easier to handle]):
>
>> #include "net/af.h"
>> #include "net/conn/ip.h" /* you need to include gnrc_conn_ip to your app
>> for that */
>> #include "net/icmpv6.h"
>> #include "net/ipv6.h"
>> #include "net/protnum.h"
>> #include "byteorder.h"
>> #include "xtimer.h"
>>
>> /* ... */
>>
>> conn_ip_t c;
>> ipv6_addr_t tmp = IPV6_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED;
>> ipv6_addr_t dst = SOME_ADDR;
>> icmpv6_echo_t echo_req, echo_rep;
>> uint16_t seq = 0;
>>
>> echo_req.type = ICMPV6_ECHO_REQ;
>> echo_req.code = 0;
>> echo_req.id = byteorder_htons(SOME_ID);
>> conn_ip_create(&conn, &tmp, sizeof(tmp), AF_INET6, PROTNUM_ICMPV6
>> while (true) {
>> int reply = 0;
>> echo_req.seq = byteorder_htons(seq++);
>> echo_req.csum.u16 = 0; /* will be recalculated by stack */
>> conn_ip_sendto(&echo_req, sizeof(echo_req), NULL, 0, dst, sizeof(dst),
>> AF_INET6, PROTNUM_IPV6_NONXT);
>> while (!reply) {
>> if (conn_ip_recvfrom(&conn, &echo_rep, sizeof(echo_rep), &tmp,
>> sizeof(tmp)) == sizeof(echo_rep)) {
>> /* could be any ICMPv6 packet so check type */
>> if (echo_rep.type == ICMPV6_ECHO_REP) {
>> printf("Received ping seq %u\n",
>> (unsigned)ntohs_byteorder(echo_rep.seq));
>> reply = 1;
>> }
>> }
>> }
>> xtimer_sleep(DELAY);
>> }
>
> Did not test the application, but I hope you get the idea.
>
> Cheers,
> Martine
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/pull/5772/files#diff-0fb2e56aa53bfaac6b1189715662110cR89
>
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