5 years, 4 months ago.

"mbed-os-example-mesh-minimal" without a Border Router

Dear all,

I have build the example for two node to test the connectivity between both. The configuration is based on two 6lowpan routers. Because I don't have any of the supported RF transceivers, I have added my own radio and its driver to mbed. Everything works fine, except that I dont have connectivity between both. The only thing I can see wit a radio sniffer are the beacon requests (L2) from the radio. The mbded output is: Link Layer Scan Fail: No Beacons.

I have realized that I need a border router to make this mesh network to work.

The question now is: can I make a small network with two or more nodes, without a border router? I have worked with other OSes in the past and when it is not needed, lets say I am building a simple network that doesn't need Internet connection and nodes report to each other, I don't use a border router. I know that if I don't need Internet connectivity, why I would I use IPv6...

But anyway, to make this example to work, I would like to connect two nodes, without a border router. Is it possible?

Thank you for your time.