At 10:04 AM -0800 12/17/99, Schettino, John wrote:
>The IRDA spec describes a connectionless mode of sending/receiving packets:
><snip>
>I'm hoping that there is support for at least receiving these types of
>packets via the Palm IR library.
We haven't tried that, but we used broadcast test packets successfully in BeamBooks.
These can be sent (and responded to) before doing a discover. The exchange manager
puts up a dialog when responding to a discover request. We didn't want this dialog to
interfere with the user starting up BeamBooks on the "receiving" device. So we
broadcast a test packet (with our creator ID) and see if it bounces back. If it does,
the other side is running BeamBooks, so we can do a discover safely. If it doesn't the
other side either isn't on and in range, or isn't running BeamBooks. The exchange
manager doesn't bounce test packets at all. BeamBooks bounces them with a slight
change so the sender knows that the receiver is running BeamBooks.
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Danny Epstein, Applied Thought Corporation
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