From: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@osg.samsung.com>
To: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>,
Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH,RFC bluetooth-next 1/2] ieee802154: Fix generation of random EUI-64 addresses.
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 10:21:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5568218F.3070108@osg.samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150529031958.GL11340@wantstofly.org>
Hello.
On 29/05/15 05:19, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 04:42:53PM +0200, Alexander Aring wrote:
>
>
>> I am currently really unsure and looking in well-known IoT OS, if they
>> look on this bit. But I didn't saw anything. Only that the most using
>> the same like eth_random_addr address and fill with ff fe bit pattern.
>> Maybe to operate with some virtual linux networking ethernet interfaces
>> which are connected over slip and tun/tap and such things...
> ff fe bit pattern?
What they do is mapping a EUI-48 to a EUI-64 following the guidelines from:
https://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/tut/eui48.pdf page 4
The two missing octets are filled in with either FF FE or FF FF. The
padding happens after the first three bytes with the OUI and the rest of
the EUI-48.
regards
Stefan Schmidt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-29 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-28 12:38 [PATCH,RFC bluetooth-next 1/2] ieee802154: Fix generation of random EUI-64 addresses Lennert Buytenhek
2015-05-28 13:17 ` Alexander Aring
2015-05-28 13:39 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2015-05-28 14:12 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2015-05-28 14:42 ` Alexander Aring
2015-05-28 14:53 ` Alexander Aring
2015-05-29 3:22 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2015-05-29 3:19 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2015-05-29 8:21 ` Stefan Schmidt [this message]
2015-05-29 8:27 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2015-05-28 15:13 ` Phoebe Buckheister
2015-05-28 15:23 ` Alexander Aring
2015-05-28 16:11 ` Marcel Holtmann
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