Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 19:31:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Iain Hibbert <plunky@rya-online.net> To: Alexander Motin <mav@mavhome.dp.ua> Cc: "freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org" <freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pan profile support in freebsd Message-ID: <1233775908.626621.2538.nullmailer@galant.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <4989E0F7.3020301@mavhome.dp.ua> References: <1233365217.00068654.1233354838@10.7.7.3> <4988DCCC.80201@mavhome.dp.ua> <bb4a86c70902031622hdc5231g1c9ce33f17842a1e@mail.gmail.com> <4988EBAC.3080202@mavhome.dp.ua> <1233760229.131312.504.nullmailer@galant.ukfsn.org> <4989E0F7.3020301@mavhome.dp.ua>
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On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Alexander Motin wrote: > Iain Hibbert wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Alexander Motin wrote: > > > > > One more minor fact. Unlike rfcomm_pppd I haven't found an option to run > > > btpand in foreground to track connection status. > > > > what would you like to accomplish? > > For example, to initiate reconnect on connection failure. Sure it can be done > in many other ways, but running in foreground seems to be usual practice for > many places, like ppp. > > > I made some effort for it to not detach until the setup is complete, but > > it kind of needs to then in order for 'connection up' activities to > > commence (eg proceeding to run dhclient).. at least on my machine I have > > logging turned up and do get some shutdown messages on the console when it > > detaches. > > I think dhclient, for example, could be run via devd when interface comes up, > alike to normal Ethernet. Not sure TAP supports devd not, but I think it could > be fixed. One thing that I have in mind is to make btpand shutdown the tap interface when exiting (as it marks it up when starting). Would that make it possible to use devd to trigger a reconnect if desired? I think its better to have a "event->action" model rather than hang it all together with scripts. iain
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