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How different is a Mesh packet from BLE advertising packet?

Hi, I want to confirm if the Mesh packet is a "special" form of advertising packet or it is completely different, i.e. all the headers and addresses etc are changed.

By reading relevant document I get the impression that the 2 are completely different - instead of a packet which is "embedded" inside the payload of an advertising packet, or a packet which alters the fields of an advertising packet to different values but preserved all the formats for an advertising packet.

This means it could be extremely problematic if I want to adopt it to android, which offers very limited capability for me to customize what packet it sends out (with the latest android release that could be a different story).

Any insight?