Neighborhood detection - some general questions

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Hello RIOT'ers,

I'm using RIOT with fixed IP-Addresses up to now. How can I invoke

neighborhood detection and what is the functionality behind this

feature? What is used to distinguish between border-routers in the near area?

The goal is to use the nearest border-router - is it the field-strength

which is used to detect the nearest border-router?

Sorry for this question but I'm not so deep in the materia about 6LoWPAN :wink:

Thanks a lot!

Best regards,

Neo

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Hi, if you really want to use vanilla NDP (6LoWPAN-NDP assumes the link-local IP address was automatically generated from the hardware address) in a LoWPAN, compile gnrc_networking with the following modules instead of `gnrc_ipv6_router_default`:

USEMODULE += gnrc_sixlowpan
USEMODULE += gnrc_sixlowpan_frag
USEMODULE += gnrc_sixlowpan_iphc
USEMODULE += gnrc_ipv6_router # (or gnrc_ipv6 for host behavior)
USEMODULE += gnrc_icmpv6
USEMODULE += gnrc_ndp_router # (or gnrc_ndp_host for host behavior)

Did not test this configuration for a while now, so this might not work at all.

Be aware however, that this also might be more power consuming, since this causes a lot more broadcasts in your network.

Cheers, Martine