Parts of [RFC4862] were already implemented when NDP via the NIB was
first implemented. This change just includes the DAD portion of
[RFC4862]. This should be enough to make RIOT fully RFC4862 compliant.
[RFC4862]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4862
With the previous fix, we only have to register addresses that are not
VALID yet on reception of router advertisements. This removes the need
for the hacky `GNRC_NETIF_FLAGS_6LO_ADDRS_REG` flag that was only
introduced to prevent unnecessary re-registration.
The whole address registration looses its point if all addresses are
marked valid from the get-go. With this fix non-link-local addresses
are first marked TENTATIVE and only after successful registration
marked as VALID. Link-local addresses are assumed to always be VALID.
[RFC6775] only talks of *routers* processing router advertisements,
with regards of discarding them if they do not contain an ABRO.
Additionally, this change makes configuration of tests setups a lot
easier, where one note is a router distributing a prefix and the other
is a host to be configured with the RA. Just do the following on the
router:
```
> ifconfig <if> add <GUA>
> ifconfig <if> rtr_adv
```
e voilà! In current master both nodes would have needed to be compiled
with `GNRC_IPV6_NIB_CONF_MULTIHOP_P6C=0`.
[RFC6775]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6775#section-8.1.3
This fix
* assures that the periodicity of the final router advertisements is
kept (so that no administrative change e.g. adding prefixes to the
prefix list causes additional RAs outside the rate limitation)
* removes all administrative options (PIO, ABRO, 6CO) from final router
advertisements (with router lifetime == 0)
I applied the following terminology and changed the wording in the doc
accordingly:
* must not: If the parameter is of the value it *must not* be it either
hits an assert or crashes the system.
* may not: The value can be that value, but the function will return an
error.
This renames the following functions
* `gnrc_netif_ipv6_addr_add()`
* `gnrc_netif_ipv6_addr_remove()`
* `gnrc_netif_ipv6_group_join()`
* `gnrc_netif_ipv6_group_leave()`
by appending the suffix `_internal`.
\## Reasoning
I'd like to provide a helper function for the *public* equivalent using
`gnrc_netapi_set()`, and those names are to nice to not be taken for
those.
\## Procedure
I used a combination of `git grep` and `sed` to do this and fixed the
alignment in the result of some cases by hand.
```sh
git grep --name-only "\<gnrc_netif_ipv6_\(addr\|group\)_\(add\|remove\|join\|leave\)\>" | \
xargs sed -i 's/\<gnrc_netif_ipv6_\(addr\|group\)_\(add\|remove\|join\|leave\)/\0_internal/g'
```
When a neighbor becomes UNREACHABLE which causes neighbor solicitations
to be send only up to every minute. If the medium is very busy this can
easily get lost, basically causing the neighbor never to be reachable
again from the perspective of the sending node. To fix this the backoff
is reduced to its start value, every time a packet is sent to that
neighbor.
This assertion doesn't make any sense. The function is called by
_copy_and_handle_aro() on a router which causes `nce` to be NULL
(because there is no NCE known yet) and then the function called
directly after (_reg_addr_upstream()) checks if `nce` might be NULL and
creates an NCE if necessary.
While the GNRC_IPV6_NIB_RTR_TIMEOUT is properly handled, it is actually
never fired. Moreover, the router lifetime is set, but never read.
This removes the router lifetime and switches it out for an evtimer
to does the GNRC_IPV6_NIB_RTR_TIMEOUT event.
When there are holes in the NIB (e.g. when entries were removed)
currently the NIB crashes the system due to a failed assertion
(`DEVELHELP` needs to be activated to test this behavior).
This fixes this behavior by making the assertion a check that is always
compiled in.
In the case that GNRC_IPV6_NIB_CONF_ARSM is set but
GNRC_IPV6_NIB_CONF_6LN is not, clang complains about
the function _get_l2addr_from_ipv6 never being used.
I couldn't easily figure out why this passes in Murdock,
but I'm guessing that clang is simply being smarter than
GCC. Can someone comment on whether there is a better fix
for this?
Relates to #6473
_is_reachable is only used when GNRC_IPV6_NIB_CONF_ARSM
is enabled, and as such it must be guarded so that clang
doesn't complain about a unused function in case
GNRC_IPV6_NIB_CONF_ARSM is not set
Similar to #7910
Relates to 6473
