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Subject: Re: Tun/tap-variant for 802.15.4/6lowpan?
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 12:59:24 -0800
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To: Henning Rogge <hrogge@gmail.com>
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Hi Henning,

> I am working with a external radio module controlled over a serial
> port and would like to use the linux 6lowpan implementation to make it
> IP capable.
> 
> Is there something like the tun/tap-driver for 6lowpan that delivers
> the raw frames back to userspace over a socket?

the simple answer is no. You would need to build an interface for this.

As a side note, we have the linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org mailing list that can be used for this kind of discussion.

Regards

Marcel