Hi Tero,

thanks, you are right. The proposed text is already indicating that.

"In case of a destination broadcast address, the address field MUST be
filled by a short address (16bit)."

regards,
Xavi

2015-07-22 13:31 GMT+02:00 Tero Kivinen <[email protected]>:

> Xavier Vilajosana writes:
> > From the attached document what we need is  (row 7)
> >
> > Extended Extended Present Not Present 0
>
> For normal data frames yes, but not for periodic enhanced beacons, as
> those will be sent to the broadcast address, i.e. the 2nd last row:
>
> Extended        Short   Present         Not Present     1
>
> This is because the broadcast address is presented as short address of
> 0xffff. And as the Source PAN ID and Destination PAN ID are same (or
> actually you only have one meaningfull PAN ID), you need to compress
> them and send only one, and set the PAN ID compression bit to 1.
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>
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