Re: [Bluez-users] Two simultanous connections

Marcel Holtmann
2004-04-03T12:16:21Z

Hi Pierre,

> hcitool -a shows "invalid option -- a".

who said that hcitool have an "-a" option.

> This is the bluetooth chip of an iPaq 3970. It's running Familiar
> stable, so it must be a pretty old bluez version. Don't know if it
> helps...

This uses HCI 11.2 firmware and this means that you are able to create
master of up to four slaves or slave of one master.

> Ok, I knew I had to give more details... I create links between 3 iPaqs.
> I tried using higher layer protocols to do so. Never worked. I'm just
> trying to do a TCP/IP network so I can run XML-RPC on top of it, ssh
> etc...
>
> That's all I need. I tried to use pan, never worked, I tried to use dun
> over pan, never worked, I tried to use rfcomm never worked. Always the
> same problem:
> I could connect A to B and B to C, never B to A and C to A.
>
> Now I went the hcitool route. Created my own connections very very
> easily. I connected B to A and C to A (A master). Ran dund _after_
> hcitool connections and everything is running great.
>
> hcitool con on A gives me two master connections. These connections have
> been initialised from B and C as slave. So I can have two master
> connections, but I can't create them from A. First one works, second one
> doesn't, nothing happen. It's just out of curiosity.

Actually I don't see your problem. Let one iPAQ be the master and the
other connect as slaves.

Regards

Marcel

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