World's Smallest IPv6 Stack By Cisco, Atmel, SICS

B Rog writes "Cisco, Atmel, and the Swedish Institute of Computer Science have released uIPv6, the world's smallest IPv6 compliant IPv6 stack, as open source for the Contiki embedded operating system. The intent is to bring IP addresses to the masses by giving devices such as thermometers or lightbulbs an IPv6 stack. With a code size of 11 kilobytes and a dynamic memory usage of less than 2 kilobytes (yes, kilobytes!), it certainly fits the bill of the ultra-low-power microcontrollers typically used in such devices. When every lightbulb has an IP address, the vast address range of IPv6 sounds like a pretty good idea."

Comments

Lightbulbs?

[ScentCone]

I'd be happier if every ACORN-registered "voter" had a unique IP address. That way when they vote in more than one state or precinct simultaneously, we'll get an IP address conflict message. Once resolved, we can use that same IP address to track their federal court docket, and even their newly laundered prison jumpsuit. Unless, of course, the result is fresh new justice department that doesn't feel obligated to follow up on pizza delivery guys that registered 70+ times.

Before anyone says so, no, I don't think pizza guy is going to try to vote 70 times. The strategy is to overwhelm the registration offices, and provide opportunities for lawyers to get more and more tangled up in each piece of the election process and in the wake of the election, should it be close. It's a DOS attack on the registration system, plain and simple. And ACORN is spoofing the traffic, on purpose.