Tero Kivinen <[email protected]> wrote: >> The reality is that I'm trying to make sure that we have a secure MIC >> that doesn't require that layer-2 neighbors know each others EUI-64. >> All that they need to know is the two-byte short address.
> The 802.15.4-2011 do require you to know your neighbors EUI-64
> already. Even if you use short address in the nonce, you still need to
> fill in the DeviceDescriptor and for your neighbors and for that you
> need to know the extended address of it. You do not need to know the
> short address, that can be left as 0xffff if you do not know it.
So, you don't need to use the EUI-64, but you do need to have a mapping of
short-address to EUI-64. How does such a mapping become known?
How can any of this work in the field today?
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Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works
-= IPv6 IoT consulting =-
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