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