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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 12:58:43 +0200
From: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-wpan 0/3] Fix handling of skbs of type
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On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 12:51:18PM +0200, Alexander Aring wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 01:12:44PM +0300, Jukka Rissanen wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm, bluetooth 6lowpan is a bit different from ieee802154 as the
> > bluetooth link is a point-to-point one and typically only uses link
> > local addresses so normally every packet is really meant for that host.
> > 
> 
> mhh, when it's point-to-point, how can multicast work? Okay, maybe it's
> some broadcast/multicast over point-to-point communication.
> 

mhh, seems to be something like that. I mean [0] should describe it how
it works. Maybe detect this mechanism then you know "it's multicast"
and set the pkt_type. I am not an expert for this stuff right now.

Salves and masters, you yes it's very different than 802.15.4, we have
broadcast frames.

- Alex

[0] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6lowpan-btle-12#section-3.2.4