Subject: Re: IRD
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
From: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/09/1999 13:35:03
> >3) It -is- possible to run stock PPP over the IR port, essentially directly.
>
> I am skepical; I tried this, and it lost severely. Do you know anyone that
> actually made it work?
I know that SLIP has been run directly on the h/w, but now that you mention
it, they guy I know who ran PPP over IR did it on top of a serial port
emulation placed on top of the IrDA stack in W95 (IrComm). And yes the
IrDA protocol did handle the data flow.
>Of course, the problem with Bluetooth now is that it's too proprietary :-(
But adopting an open standard like Ir-OBEX is a step in the right direction.
If loose tooth is to survive, it'll have to become open.
> --Ken
-Mike