| .. _networking: |
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| Networking |
| ########### |
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| The networking section contains information regarding the network stack |
| of the Zephyr kernel. Use the information to understand the |
| principles behind the operation of the stacks and how they were implemented. |
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| The networking stack supports the following features: |
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| * IPv6 |
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| * IPv6 header compresson, which is part of the 6LoWPAN support |
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| * UDP |
| * IPv4 |
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| * In this version of the IP stack, IPv6 and IPv4 cannot be utilized at the |
| same time. |
| * DHCP client support for IPv4 |
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| * TCP |
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| * Both client and server roles are supported |
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| * RPL (Ripple) IPv6 mesh routing |
| * CoAP |
| * MQTT |
| * Highly configurable |
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| * Features, buffer sizes/counts, stack sizes, etc. |
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| Additionally these network technologies are supported: |
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| * IEEE 802.15.4 |
| * Bluetooth |
| * Ethernet |
| * SLIP (for testing with Qemu) |
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| Source tree layout |
| ================== |
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| The IP stack source code tree is organized as follows: |
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| ``net/ip/`` |
| The core stack itself. This is where the Contiki uIP stack code |
| is located. |
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| ``include/net/`` |
| Public API header files. These are the header files applications need |
| to include to use IP networking functionality. |
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| ``samples/net/`` |
| Sample networking code. This is a good reference to get started with |
| network application development. |
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| ``tests/net/`` |
| Test applications. These applications are used to verify the |
| functionality of the IP stack, but are not the best |
| source for sample code (see ``samples/net`` instead). |
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| .. toctree:: |
| :maxdepth: 1 |
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| buffers.rst |
