RIOT/examples/rpl_udp

Setup the build

First switch to this application directory:

cd RIOT/examples/rpl_udp

Parameterizing the build

The build system provides two specific parameters for the RPL module.
These parameters are:

• RPL_MAX_ROUTING_ENTRIES sets the desired maximum number of entries for the RPL routing table. If this parameter is not provided, a default value is used.
• RPL_NODE_IS_ROOT indicating the build is specifically for a root node. This parameter is only required for using RPL_NON_STORING_MODE MOP to initialize a RPL routing table. The parameter is ignored in all other cases. For non-storing MOP a node does not require to provide a routing table.

Compiling the executable

example for RPL_STORING_MODE_NO_MC:

make

builds the project and creates 128 entries for the RPL routing table by default.

make RPL_MAX_ROUTING_ENTRIES=103

builds the project and creates 103 entries for the RPL routing table overwriting the default value.

example for RPL_NON_STORING_MODE:

make RPL_MAX_ROUTING_ENTRIES=103 RPL_NODE_IS_ROOT=1

builds the project and creates 103 entries for the RPL routing table for the root node.

[native only] Set up a bridge for two tap devices for communication

../../cpu/native/tapsetup.sh create 2

The 2 corresponds to the number of virtual nodes to be started.
The tap devices are bound to the virtual native node on starting the created executable rpl_udp.elf.

[native only] Starting virtual nodes

Run the first node

make term

This starts the executable binding a virtual node to the first tap device tap0.

Further nodes must be bound to tap devices manually.
For the second node it would be:

make term PORT=tap1

RPL init

Type help to see the commands available.

Command order:

init (r|n|h)
server
send <node-id> <message>

Init your RPL node either as root (r), as node router (n), or as non-routing node (host-mode) (h)

> init r
init r
INFO: Initialize as root on address 1
6LoWPAN and RPL initialized.
Channel set to 10
Transport layer initialized

or > init n init n INFO: Initialize as node on address 2 6LoWPAN and RPL initialized. Channel set to 10 Transport layer initialized

or > init h init h INFO: Initialize as non-routing node on address 3 6LoWPAN initialized. Channel set to 10 Transport layer initialized

(It is advised to start all nodes before running the root node, because the interval for sending DIOs from the root increases over time) A few seconds withing running, setting and initializing your second node, the nodes will automatically start to exchange control traffic. You should be seeing output similar to the following:

41 CC FC 34 12 36 12 00 FF FE 00 00 02 36 12 00 FF FE 00 00 01 7A 33 3A 9B 03 F9 90 00 00 04 00 00 80
IPv6 datagram received (next header: 3A) from fe80:0000:0000:0000:3612:00ff:fe00:0001 	 ICMP type: 5A 	 ICMP code: 08
Received packet from ID 1
	Length:	34
	Src:	1
	Dst:	2
	LQI:	0
	RSSI:	0

You can now use the dodag command to obtain information on the node's rank in the rpl dodag as well as their preferred parent

> dodag
dodag
---------------------------
Part of Dodag:
fe80:0000:0000:0000:3612:00ff:fe00:0001
my rank: 512
my preferred parent:
fe80:0000:0000:0000:3612:00ff:fe00:0001
---------------------------

#Sending via UDP

In order to be able to receive UDP messages from other nodes, we have to start rpl_udp's UDP server:

> server
server
UDP SERVER ON PORT 511 (THREAD PID: 17)

When rpl is running, you can send a message from any participating node to the node initialized as a server (in our case, node 1) using the send command

> send 1 hi
send 1 hi
Successful deliverd 11 bytes over UDP to abcd:0000:0000:0000:3612:00ff:fe00:0001 to 6LoWPAN

In case of an error message, make sure that rpl is running and you've started the UDP server on the receiving node by running the server command.