A customer using my company's product is experiencing Bluetooth
disconnects using a PAN networking application. The btmon capture on
the NAP role side sees a disconnect completion event with reason =
timeout coming from the adapter (RTL8821CU). The capture shows a
sequence like:
185.515624 receive HCI_EVT (Rcvd Number of Completed Packets)
195.512404 send HCI ACL Packet, BNEP protocol, TLSv1.2 data
195.512519 send HCI ACL Packet, BNEP protocol, TLSv1.2 Encrypted Alert
196.321628 send HCI ACL Packet, BNEP protocol, TCP Retransmission of
Encrypted Alert
197.456727 send HCI ACL Packet, BNEP protocol, TCP RST,ACK
206.716499 receive HCI_EVT (Rcvd Disconnect Complete, Reason: Connection
Timeout (0x08)
The disconnect completion event arrives about 20 seconds after the last
frame received from the adapter. It appears that the other side of the
connection stops responding, or the local side stops receiving the
responses, right after time 185.515624.
Is the disconnect completion event generated by the adapter (adapter FW)?
Is the disconnect completion event in response to something sent by the
other side of the connection (PANU role)?
What types of things would cause a disconnect completion event to be
received by the HCI driver?
The very next frame in the capture is at time 206.747045 and is an
HCI_EVT received from the adapter (Rcvd Connect Request). This is the
PANU role side immediately reconnecting. This seems to indicate to me
that the other side knows about the disconnect right away.
I have had no success thus far reproducing this myself. I am looking
for better understanding of the disconnect completion event with timeout
to guide me in assessing causes.
Jay
