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Is suppressing route discovery for unicast transmissions possible on XBee S2C devices?

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Hi,

I'm working with an XBee S2C and wish to suppress route discovery for unicast transmissions from the coordinator.

Is this possible? To be clear, the Discover Route subfield in the NWK Frame control field is currently being set to 1 for unicasts, and I want to set this to 0.

Also, as an aside, is it possible not to send the Destination IEEE address in the NWK Frame control field? I'm observing that this is the case for broadcasts, but it is being sent for unicasts.
asked Nov 5, 2020 in RF Solutions and XBee by mPul New to the Community (0 points)

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No it is not possible to turn off the rout discovery or to remove the IEEE Mac address in the Network frame. Not in Zigbee.
answered Nov 5, 2020 by mvut Veteran of the Digi Community (13,680 points)
Is this part of the Zigbee protocol specification, or is there just not a way to turn it off on an XBee? Just to clarify, I'm using the Zigbee 2006 protocol.
commented Nov 6, 2020 by mPul New to the Community (0 points)
It is a mixture of both.
commented Nov 6, 2020 by mvut Veteran of the Digi Community (13,680 points)
I'm asking because when using another product (using a non-XBee Zigbee transceiver) I can clearly see unicast messages being sent without the IEEE addresses and the DR field set to 0.
commented Nov 9, 2020 by mPul New to the Community (0 points)
That would be using a custom Zigbee solution that does that. IE they added support for the two situations to their application.
commented Nov 9, 2020 by mvut Veteran of the Digi Community (13,680 points)
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