Re: What is SAM value? "ieee802154 phy0 wpan0: SAM value 0x3 not supported"

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

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 11:56:08AM +0200, Baptiste Clenet wrote:
> 2015-07-24 11:48 GMT+02:00 Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>:
> > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 11:02:30AM +0200, Baptiste Clenet wrote:
> >> 2015-07-24 10:47 GMT+02:00 Baptiste Clenet <bapclenet@gmail.com>:
> >> > 2015-07-24 10:31 GMT+02:00 Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>:
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 09:56:49AM +0200, Baptiste Clenet wrote:
> >> >>> Hi,
> >> >>>
> >> >>> What is SAM value? I got "ieee802154 phy0 wpan0: SAM value 0x3 not
> >> >>> supported" when I receive a ping from another board.
> >> >>>
> >> >>
> >> >> I think you hit [0]. You got that because we received some 6LoWPAN frame
> >> >> with context based address compression (the source address). See also [1].
> >> > Yes for [0]
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> Your options are:
> >> >>
> >> >>  - That the other board use stateless (means SAC = 0, see [1]) address
> >> >>    compression.
> >> > How may I check?
> >> > They use both the same settings, they are based on the same source code.
> >> SAC bit is set.
> >
> > Yes SAC bit means context based address compression and we don't support
> > it. We should support it, that's what rfc6282 said. But we don't have
> > support for that now. :-)
> >
> > What do you mean with "they are based on the same source code"? It's a
> > linux<->linux communication?
> Yes it is linux to linux transmission.
> Yeah I understand for the support :-)
> The question is now why my linux use context based address compression
> if it shouldn't? Where is it (SAC) set when transmitting a message?
> 

We don't set it. Which kernel do you use?

- Alex