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Date:      Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:28:01 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Iain Hibbert <plunky@rya-online.net>
To:        Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
Cc:        freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Visibility
Message-ID:  <1258392481.445966.18874.nullmailer@galant.ukfsn.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091116165007.GC13298@megatron.madpilot.net>
References:  <20091116165007.GC13298@megatron.madpilot.net>

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On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Guido Falsi wrote:

> Today I was playing around a little with bluetooth and I had the fancy
> to just make my FreeBSD system not visible via bluetooth by default.
>
> I could not find any configuration to do this, nor any instruction in
> the manual.
>
> Is there a simple way to do this? is this supported(no problem in
> writing small scripts or code snippets...) or simply impossibile without
> major tinkering with the stack?
>
> Thanks in advance, this is just an idea I had, nothing urgent!

You need to have "Inquiry Scan" off. You can switch this manually with
hccontrol(8) but I don't know how to make it so that it isn't turned on,
perhaps using bluetooth_device_discoverable=NO in your /etc/rc.conf?

iain





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