Alexander Aring <alex.aring@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Then the discussed stopped after I took a shower and realized we lost
> ack handling when going into promiscuous mode... The transceiver will
> simple ack every frame which it's received then if we don't stop ack
> handling.
The issue is that with the filters off, we will ack packets aimed at other
nodes.
> Now, after I looked because RX_SAFE_MODE into af86rf2xx datasheets
> again. I think we could try to do the following:
So don't get too hung up on the limitations of the af86. It could be that
it is impossible with that device, but that another device will make it
possible.
> - RX done irq comes - Grab buffer information - Doing fast a source
> address lookup and check if we have a mac interface currently running
> which has the address and ack is requested. - If so trigger pin to
> send ack. - If not do nothing and drop (because we are not meant)
This sounds very cool.
> Another question is: Is running multiple interfaces on one PHY the
> thing what we "need". I think yes, because the 802.15.4 spec describe
> only one source PAN to operate on. Another idea would be to override
I'd really like to be able to operate on multiple PANs at the same time.
I think that 6LBRs will need this.
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