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.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ieee802154/6lowpan/core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/core.c b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/core.c
index dfd3c60..0ae5822 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/core.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/core.c
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ static void lowpan_setup(struct net_device *dev)
{
dev->addr_len = IEEE802154_ADDR_LEN;
memset(dev->broadcast, 0xff, IEEE802154_ADDR_LEN);
- dev->type = ARPHRD_IEEE802154;
+ dev->type = ARPHRD_6LOWPAN;
/* Frame Control + Sequence Number + Address fields + Security Header */
dev->hard_header_len = 2 + 1 + 20 + 14;
dev->needed_tailroom = 2; /* FCS */
--
2.3.0
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