Setup between two Bens: Ben1: iz add wpan-phy0 ip link set wpan0 address de:ad:be:af:ca:fe:ba:be ifconfig wpan0 up izcoordinator -d 1 -l lease -i wpan0 -p 0x777 -s 1 -c 11 Ben2: iz add wpan-phy0 ip link set wpan0 address ca:fe:ca:fe:ca:fe:ca:fe ifconfig wpan0 up iz assoc wpan0 777 1 11 short Ben1: izchat 777 1 8001 Ben2: izchat 777 8001 1 Based on http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/linux-zigbee/wiki/GettingStarted-0.2 Instead of izchat, you can also set up crude IPv4 networking. For this, we need two IPv4 addresses, let's call them $IP1 for Ben1 and $IP2 for Ben2. Ben1: dirtpan 777 1 8001 'ifconfig $ITF $IP1 dstaddr $IP2 up' Ben2: dirtpan 777 8001 1 'ifconfig $ITF $IP2 dstaddr $IP1 up' $ITF is an environment variable dirtpan sets to the name of the TUN interface (tun0, etc.) before it invokes ifconfig.