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Date:      Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:10:21 -0700
From:      "Maksim Yevmenkin" <maksim.yevmenkin@gmail.com>
To:        "Iain Hibbert" <plunky@rya-online.net>
Cc:        freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bluetooth PAN
Message-ID:  <bb4a86c70704282010m44bc8714n9303a8d7514ed9ae@mail.gmail.com>
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On 4/28/07, Iain Hibbert <plunky@rya-online.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
>
> > p.s. bluetooth pan is not supported under freebsd
>
> FWIW there is no reason it should not work, if somebody would write a
> userland PAN program that works as a bridge between an L2CAP socket and a
> tap(4) device (or tun(4), I'm not sure of the difference). The BNEP

bnep should use tap(4), imo, as bnep is ethernet encapsulation protocol.

> protocol looks very simple (just encapsulate ethernet frames in L2CAP
> packets) - alas I currently have no hardware that supports PAN profiles
> otherwise I would write a daemon, maybe I will look into that over the
> summer..

standard windows bluetooth stack supports pan. hopefully i will have
enough free time in the next months or so, to bring sco, pan etc.
support to freebsd tree.

thanks,
max



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