Hi Alexander, aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx wrote on Tue, 26 Sep 2023 21:37:23 -0400: > Hi, > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 11:51 AM Miquel Raynal > <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Coordinators may have to handle association requests from peers which > > want to join the PAN. The logic involves: > > - Acknowledging the request (done by hardware) > > - If requested, a random short address that is free on this PAN should > > be chosen for the device. > > - Sending an association response with the short address allocated for > > the peer and expecting it to be ack'ed. > > > > If anything fails during this procedure, the peer is considered not > > associated. > > I thought a coordinator can also reject requests for _any_ reason and > it's very user specific whatever that reason is. Absolutely. > If we have such a case (that it is very user specific what to do > exactly) this should be able to be controlled by the user space to > have there a logic to tell the kernel to accept or reject the > association. Agreed (not implemented yet, though). > However, I am fine with this solution, but I think we might want to > change this behaviour in the future so that an application in the user > space has the logic to tell the kernel to accept or reject an > association. That would make sense? Definitely, yes. Thanks, Miquèl
