Re: [Bluez-users] no concurrent inquiry / inquiry scan and L2CAP connection as slave

Collin R. Mulliner
2004-09-05T17:53:12Z

Hi Michael,

I have an application which connects 2 or mode nodes via rfcomm and all
nodes still do inquirys all the time. Since rfcomm is build on top of
l2cap your stuff should work. Maybe you like to verify it by looking at
my code - http://www.mulliner.org/bluetooth/btchat/

> I'm experiencing the following behavior with BlueZ and L2CAP:
>
> After establishing an L2CAP connection between two nodes, only the
> master of this connection is still able to:
>
> - perform periodic device inquiries (i.e. search other devices
> in 'Periodic_Inquiry_Mode')
> - perform inquiry scans (i.e. be visible for other searching devices)
>
> However, I would like to be able to do this as slave as well (at
> least, to perform inquiry scans as slave).
>
> Now I'm wondering whether:
>
> - this is a restriction of BlueZ or
> - this is a restriction of my BT chipsets or
> - this is a restriction of Bluetooth or
> - I'm doing (configuring) something wrong...

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