diff --git a/src/node/transport_restart.rs b/src/node/transport_restart.rs
index 85412b0..270ea7c 100644
--- a/src/node/transport_restart.rs
+++ b/src/node/transport_restart.rs
@@ -268,10 +268,12 @@ mod node_integration_tests {
         let io = MockBleIo::new("hci0", test_addr(1));
         io.fail_next_listens(1);
 
-        let mut config = BleConfig::default();
-        config.accept_connections = Some(true);
-        config.scan = Some(false);
-        config.advertise = Some(false);
+        let config = BleConfig {
+            accept_connections: Some(true),
+            scan: Some(false),
+            advertise: Some(false),
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
 
         let (tx, _rx) = tokio::sync::mpsc::channel(64);
         let mut transport = BleTransport::new(TransportId::new(1), None, config, io, tx);
@@ -309,8 +311,10 @@ mod node_integration_tests {
         // errors out on bind-address parsing — reproduce that exact shape
         // with an unparseable bind address, then feed the failed handle to
         // `quarantine_transport` and confirm it is dropped, not retained.
-        let mut udp_config = crate::config::UdpConfig::default();
-        udp_config.bind_addr = Some("not-an-address".to_string());
+        let udp_config = crate::config::UdpConfig {
+            bind_addr: Some("not-an-address".to_string()),
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
         let (packet_tx, _packet_rx) = crate::transport::packet_channel(64);
         let mut udp = crate::transport::udp::UdpTransport::new(
             TransportId::new(3),
diff --git a/src/transport/ble/mod.rs b/src/transport/ble/mod.rs
index 9925f6a..94c885d 100644
--- a/src/transport/ble/mod.rs
+++ b/src/transport/ble/mod.rs
@@ -177,6 +177,17 @@ impl<I: BleIo> BleTransport<I> {
 
     /// Start the transport asynchronously.
     pub async fn start_async(&mut self) -> Result<(), TransportError> {
+        // Limitations: only a failure to begin listening marks the transport
+        // `Failed` and returns `Err` — that is the one case restart
+        // supervision (`node::transport_restart`) can recover. A failure to
+        // begin advertising or scanning, below, is logged and swallowed, and
+        // the transport still proceeds to the operational state — so a
+        // transport can report itself operational while neither advertising
+        // nor scanning is actually running underneath it. Closing this gap
+        // would mean re-running the advertise/scan calls on a transport that
+        // already owns a live acceptor and a spawned accept loop, which is a
+        // larger change than this fix covers, so it is deferred rather than
+        // attempted here.
         if !self.state.can_start() {
             return Err(TransportError::AlreadyStarted);
         }
@@ -1163,6 +1174,24 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(transport.state(), TransportState::Down);
     }
 
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn test_start_async_is_reentrant_after_listen_failure() {
+        // The whole restart supervisor rests on this: `can_start()`
+        // permitting a retry is worthless if `start_async` cannot actually
+        // run twice on the same transport.
+        let io = MockBleIo::new("hci0", test_addr(1));
+        io.fail_next_listens(1);
+        let (mut transport, _rx) = make_transport(io);
+
+        assert!(transport.start_async().await.is_err());
+        assert_eq!(transport.state(), TransportState::Failed);
+
+        // The injected failure was one-shot — the second call is a real
+        // retry, not a repeat of the same failure.
+        transport.start_async().await.unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(transport.state(), TransportState::Up);
+    }
+
     #[tokio::test(start_paused = true)]
     async fn test_scan_discovers_peers() {
         let io = MockBleIo::new("hci0", test_addr(1));