How to TCP/IP over BNEP/PAN (Personal Area Network)

[jruiz]

Hi,

I'm trying to create to create A TCP/IP connection over Bluetooth between an n51x chip and other device (let say an iPhone mobile).

I've seen in the SoftDevice S130 description that "S130 is ideally suited to Bluetooth Smart Personal Area Network (PAN) hubs" I wonder if the API could help me to build an TCP/IP PAN network.

I know that to get IP we need BNEP which encapsulates ethernet frames in a L2CAP session,

Wikipedia explains it much better than me so I will stealth their description: "BNEP is used for delivering network packets on top of L2CAP. This protocol is used by the personal area networking (PAN) profile. BNEP performs a similar function to Subnetwork Access Protocol (SNAP) in Wireless LAN. In the protocol stack, BNEP is bound to L2CAP"

I can see that there're functions referring L2CAP in the softdevice API but haven't seen nothing about BNEP or PAN.

Thanks

[Hung Bui]

@Jruiz: BLE is a PAN network.

Could you describe in more detail what you want to create ? When you say you want to create a PAN, what exactly you want to make ?

[jruiz]

Hi @hungbui,

thank you for your interest,

I've tried to improve the question. but in few words I need to create a TCP/IP connection over bluetooth between the nrf51-dk and another device. I've added the protocols I think will be involved to the main question, but from your previous comments they maybe are just available in bluetooth classic?

Also I know that I could use 6LowPAN in BLE to create a TCP/IP connection but one of the devices I need to work with won't support it so far.

Thanks