From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
To: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>, linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH bluetooth-next 1/3] ieee802154: 6lowpan: fix ARPHRD to ARPHRD_6LOWPAN
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 15:16:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F470D2.30703@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1425305405-30706-2-git-send-email-alex.aring@gmail.com>
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On 03/02/2015 03:10 PM, Alexander Aring wrote:
> Currently there exists two interface types with ARPHRD_IEEE802154. These
> are the 802.15.4 interfaces and 802.15.4 6LoWPAN interfaces. This is
> more a bug because some userspace applications checks on this value like
> wireshark. This occurs that wireshark will always try to parse a lowpan
> interface as 802.15.4 frames. With ARPHRD_6LOWPAN wireshark will parse
> it as IPv6 frames which is correct.
>
> Much applications checks on this value to readout the EUI64 mac address
> which should be the same for ARPHRD_6LOWPAN. BTLE 6LoWPAN and ieee802154
> 6LoWPAN will share now the same ARPHRD.
Does this have effects on libpcap/tcpdump and/or wireshark?
Marc
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-02 14:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-02 14:10 [PATCH bluetooth-next 0/3] ieee802154: UAPI changes Alexander Aring
2015-03-02 14:10 ` [PATCH bluetooth-next 1/3] ieee802154: 6lowpan: fix ARPHRD to ARPHRD_6LOWPAN Alexander Aring
2015-03-02 14:16 ` Marc Kleine-Budde [this message]
2015-03-02 14:29 ` Alexander Aring
2015-03-02 14:10 ` [PATCH bluetooth-next 2/3] ieee802154: change wpan-phy name to phy Alexander Aring
2015-03-02 14:10 ` [PATCH bluetooth-next 3/3] ieee802154: remove deprecated sysfs entries Alexander Aring
2015-03-14 16:14 ` [PATCH bluetooth-next 0/3] ieee802154: UAPI changes Marcel Holtmann
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