Return-Path: Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 14:08:17 -0400 From: "Marcus C. Gottwald" To: BlueZ users Message-ID: <20070522180817.GA24396@mi.fu-berlin.de> References: <20070522161255.GA9813@robsims.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20070522161255.GA9813@robsims.com> Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] Sharing devices with dual-booted Windows Reply-To: BlueZ users List-Id: BlueZ users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: bluez-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: bluez-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Rob Sims wrote (Tue 2007-May-22 10:12:55 -0600): > I have several devices that I use with both Linux and Windows on the > same laptop. The issue is that the remote devices, such as my PDA, see > the laptop as the same device no matter what OS is running, and pairing > is broken. I always thought of this as a defect in the protocol: Identification is based on the hardware address, but stateful authentication using that identification is performed on a layer way up. Cheers, Marcus -- = Marcus C. Gottwald =B7 http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bluez-users mailing list Bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bluez-users