Thread node ping pc in LAN failed

[Bo Yang]

Hello, all

I am very new to Thread, I now built a border router with BeagleBone Black Wireless and nRF52840 NCP.

May anyone know how can I communicate with another PC on my home network from a Thread node.

I tried a lot, but all failed, including the "standalone_ipv6" script and configuring the gateway (or add-prefix) in wpanctl. So far, I only successfully ping the border router wpan0 with the thread mesh local address, but can never go further to another thread node.

Thanks in advance

Bo

[Bo Yang]

Hello, all

I finally find a way to make ping working between my host on LAN and the thread nodes.

In case of anyone who needs the solution as well, I post my configuration here:

1. add mesh local address on host1: host1$ sudo ifconfig <if> inet6 add fd11:22:db8:1::1/64

2. add mesh local address on BeagleBone: beaglebone$ sudo ifconfig <if> inet6 add fd11:22:db8:1::2/64

3 add-prefix using wpanctl: beaglebone$ sudo wpanctl

wpanctl:wpan0> add-prefix -f -a -r -o fd11:22:db8:2::

Note: this prefix MUST NOT the same as the BeagleBone and the host1 (this is where I made mistake and stuck before)

4. add a route to fd11:22:db8:2::/64 via gateway fd11:22:db8:1::2 on host1: host1$ sudo route -A inet6 add fd11:22:db8:2::/64 gw fd11:22:db8:1::2

That's it!!!!

Hope this will be helpful

Best wishes

Bo

[Jonathan Hui]

Glad to hear you resolved your issue. Manually setting up IPv6 routes between your host and Thread Border Router is certainly a way to enable end-to-end IPv6 communication.

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[Bo Yang]

Hi, Jonathan

Thanks for your reply, as I am really new to networking, is there any smarter way to enable the communication?

Thanks

Best wishes

Bo

[Stuart Longland]

On 26/09/18 08:12, Bo Yang wrote:
> Hi, Jonathan
>
> Thanks for your reply, as I am really new to networking, is there any
> smarter way to enable the communication?

There's dynamic routing. I'm experimenting with OSPFv3 right now, the
Thread Border Routers Best Practices whitepaper¹ also calls out Babel².

OSPFv3 has been *quite* a learning curve, and in the end, I got it
working more by accident than by understanding, so a TO-DO item is to
re-trace my steps and put together some documentation on how to set it up.

Another TO-DO item is to have a closer look at Babel. As it happens,
Quagga³ supports both of these.

1.
https://www.threadgroup.org/Portals/0/documents/support/ThreadBorderRouterBestPractices_2530_1.pdf
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel_(protocol)
3. http://www.quagga.net/
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