Bluetooth PAN

[Maksim Yevmenkin]

On 4/28/07, Iain Hibbert <plunky at 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