Re: [RFC] the problem of on-the-wire byte order in ieee802154

[Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 04:49:15PM +0300, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:11:33AM +0200, Alexander Aring wrote:
> 
> > > I noticed the 802.15.4 spec has test vectors for the crypto that
> > > show the byte order of the address.
> > > See 802.15.4-2011 spec [1]
> > > Annex C, Section C.2.1.1
> > > 
> > > source address 0xacde480000000001 is represented in a packet as.
> > > 08 D0 84 21 43 01 00 00 00 00 48 DE AC || 02 05 00 00 00 || 55 CF 00 00 51
> > > 52 53 54 22 3B C1 EC 84 1A
> > > B5 53.
> > 
> > thanks for this note. That shows that the LSB "01" of
> > 0xacde480000000001 is send at the first of the packet. Then it
> > should be little endian, or? (In case of this example).
> 
> That's what this example suggests, yes -- as 01-00-00-00-00-48-DE-AC
> would not be a valid source address, as it is a group address.  Note,
> however, that Annex C is an informative annex, and not a normative
> annex.
> 
> I've reached out to the IEEE for clarification of this issue, let's
> see what they come up with.

oh, "where" did you do that exactly?

- Alex