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Link Layer Address Handling
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Overview
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The link layer addresses are set for network interfaces so that L2
connectivity works correctly in the network stack. Typically the link layer
addresses are 6 bytes long like in Ethernet but for IEEE 802.15.4 the link
layer address length is 8 bytes.

API Reference
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.. doxygengroup:: net_linkaddr
