I could use that to backup the palm-3x. Then I proceeded to trying IrLAN for the
first time. I used a Desktop machine equipped with a Tekram 210B dongle and
an IBM Thinkpad 560EL.
After initial failures (I tried to use irda0 as the device!) I could get
a connection running on irlan0.
The first problem (or feature) that I see is that irlan0 does not exist
until there is a discovery? Why is that? What is the right procedure to
configure irlan?
Transferring files using ftp worked fine (most of the times). Transfer rate
was 7.5-8 Kb/sec. That's OK for a 115.2 KB connection (I assume IrLAN
has more overhead than PPP) but I would expect alittle more if compression
is used. I had irda_deflate.o loaded from the beginning but I did not see
a use count on it. Des compression need a special tweak to be effective?
Ping time was very inconsistent. Between 90 and 600 msec. That's not
a problem for file transfer but very bad if I want to telnet or to start an
X connection. Is there a place for tuning the packet scheduling to
minimize the ping time?
Trying more than one activity on the connection did not work that well.
Ping while transferring a file got errors (lots of messages about wrong
data in byte #8). I also tried to run 2 ftp sessions (each computer gets
a large file from the other computer). The IrLAN connection went down after
some unexpected errors (happened after about 2MB).
Itai
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