Hi Baptiste,
If you take a look at figures 37-1 and 37-2 in the data sheet you linked you
can see that IEEE 802.15.4 allows up to 127 bytes for the MPDU and this
includes the FCS.
So if the driver would allow writing 127 bytes into the frame buffer the last
two bytes would indeed be overwritten which is undesired I guess.
I hope I understood you correctly and this helps.
Best, Thomas
> On May 16, 2017, at 6:09 AM, Baptiste Clenet <bapcle...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thomas, Hauke, Martine, Kaspar what do you think about it?
>
> My last question: how do I send a packet with length 127 octets with
> at86rf2xx transceiver?
>
> 2017-05-15 14:59 GMT+02:00 Baptiste Clenet <bapcle...@gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I want to send a pkt which is 126 Octet long, I get a message
>> from [at86rf2xx]:
>> [at86rf2xx] error: packet too large (2 byte) to be send
>>
>> IEE802.15.4 MAX length is 127 so it should be sent.
>> #define IEEE802154_FRAME_LEN_MAX (127U) /**< maximum frame length */
>>
>> I checked source code of at86rf2xx driver and I think I understand the
>> magic number +2 in the if condition but I don't know why this is
>> checked.
>>
>> at86rf2xx_netdev.c:110:
>>
>> /* current packet data + FCS too long */
>> if ((len + ptr->iov_len + 2) > AT86RF2XX_MAX_PKT_LENGTH) {
>> DEBUG("[at86rf2xx] error: packet too large (%u byte) to be
>> send (iov_len %d, i %d, count %d)\n",
>> (unsigned)len + 2, ptr->iov_len, i, count);
>> return -EOVERFLOW;
>> }
>>
>> +2 mean two FCS octets?
>> In the samr21 datasheet, 37.3 Frame Check Sequence (FCS) [1]:
>>
>> For a frame with a frame length specified as N (3 ≤ N ≤ 127), the FCS
>> is calculated on the first N-2 octets in the Frame Buffer, and the
>> resulting FCS field is transmitted in place of the last two octets
>> from the Frame Buffer.
>> Example:
>> A frame transmission of length five with TX_AUTO_CRC_ON set, is
>> started with a Frame Buffer write access of five bytes (the last two
>> bytes can be omitted). The first three bytes are used for FCS
>> generation; the last two bytes are replaced by the internally
>> calculated FCS.
>>
>> So while I think we should remove the +2 test and let the possibility
>> to send packet up to 127 octets and I don't understand the part in
>> datasheet: "the last two bytes are replaced by the internally
>> calculated FCS". This mean that a part of data is erased? (for 5
>> octets or 127)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> [1] http://www.atmel.com/Images/Atmel-42223%E2%80%93SAM-R21_Datasheet.pdf
>>
>>
>> --
>> Baptiste
>
>
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> Baptiste
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