Re: [Bluez-users] BT_ADDR Address Resolution

tOpSy TuRvY
2004-06-24T12:46:55Z

Hi Marcel,

> the Linux PAN is a point-to-point connection. If you want to build a NAP
> or GN you must also use the Linux bridge. So this is not a PAN question,
> this depends on how you configured your bridge.

You are right, it was a bridge question. I think it would be fair to
assume that the bridge is going to forward all broadcast traffic it
recieves on all the ports (except the one it came on).

>
> > Also does the bridge implimentation result in one broadcast per "port"
> > i.e. instead of one baseband layer broadcast (i.e. LT_ADDR = 000), we will have
> > as many broadcasts as the number of connected PANUs (i.e. one per
> > port)?
>
> No Bluetooth broadcast is used. Read the BNEP and PAN specifications.
>

Read those and tried to understand them. What I gathered is that there
will be one Bluetooth broadcast sent to each of the connected PANUs. i.e.
one Bluetooth broadcast sent on each bridge port, and that seems very
wasteful since just one bluetooth broadcast on any port would have been
recieved by all the PANUs right?

Regards,
Assed