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# HOWTO - Setting up the RPL Border router and other nodes
In this folder we have a fully functional demonstrator with the components:
1. **RPL border router**: to start the wireless network and connect it to other networks.
2. and a **wireless node** that acts as a basic RPL node by default (but can optionally be used configured as DAG Root)
## RICH RPL Border Router
Setup the UART flow-control mode for the router from border-router/project-conf.h
* Enable either **HW flow control**
```C
#define UART_HW_FLOW_CTRL 1
#define UART_XONXOFF_FLOW_CTRL 0
```
* or **SW flow control**
```C
#define UART_HW_FLOW_CTRL 0
#define UART_XONXOFF_FLOW_CTRL 1
```
* You can disable both, but it is not recommended.
Compile and flash a node with the rpl-border-router.jn516x.bin image. Either a USB dongle or a dev-board would work.
From a Linux terminal, go to `contiki/examples/jn516x/rpl/border-router` and do either
`make connect-router-hw` if you have **HW flow control**
or `make connect-router-sw` if you have **SW flow control**
This will start a tunnel interface (tun0) on the host machine.
All traffic towards our network (prefix fd00::1/64) will now be routed to the border router.
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## RPL Node
The directory contiki-private/examples/jn516x/rpl/node contains a basic RICH node running TSCH and RPL.
You can compile and program more NXP nodes to run this, forming a larger network.
You should be able to ping the nodes (you can obtain their IPv6 address either directly from their log output
or by enabling DEBUG output in rpl-icmp6.c and looking at DAO prefixes being added.
## RPL+CoAP Nodes
coap-*-node are example nodes that expose their sensors as CoAP resources. See README.md files from the sub-directories
for more details.