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On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 22:10 +0200, dexters84 wrote: |
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[correcting top-posting] |
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> Florian Philipp pisze: |
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> > Hi list! |
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> > I could need some help. |
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> > Long story (if you don't want to hear, scroll down): |
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> > For six months a year I'm attending a university of cooperative |
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> > education and although I pay 1000€ a year for infrastructure and stuff |
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> > like that its services for students are a big joke. Especially its |
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> > WLAN-hotspot isn't nearly up to the job. |
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> > Because I have an UMTS-card my idea was to set up a personal area |
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> > network (PAN) via bluetooth and act as a router to support my friends |
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> > during the WLAN-outages. |
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> > |
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> > Most of the job is already done but I have problems setting up a |
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> > DHCP-server and the network configuration. Because the virtual ethernet |
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> > interface only exists when a connection is established, dhcpd doesn't |
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> > start from the init-script and, although I haven't tried it yet, normal |
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> > network config shouldn't fare any better. When the last client |
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> > disconnects, all the configuration is gone and when someone reconnects, |
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> > I have to call "ifconfig bnep0 192.168.4.1" again. |
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> > Short question: |
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> > How do I automate the configuration of network interfaces and related |
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> > deamons when the whole interface keeps appearing and disappearing out of |
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> > the clear blue sky? |
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> > I don't think ifplugd will be up to the job (haven't tried it though). |
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> > Thanks in advance! |
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> > Florian Philipp |
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> I've did this thing a while ago. Bluetooth router is a cool thing, |
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> unfortunatelly only in theory. |
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> To solve Your problem, look in /etc/bluetooth directory and check the |
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> manual of bluez - there are a couple of pre-up and post-up scritps that |
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> solve the problem. |
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> I did manage to get bt router working but my usb dongle was cousing a |
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> lot of problems - long story short - one dongle was not sufficient for |
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> more than two simultanous connections. |
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Thanks, you pointed me in the right direction! |
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The solution is really unobvious but described here: |
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http://bluez.sourceforge.net/contrib/HOWTO-PAN |
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