LAN access over bluetooth

Maksim Yevmenkin maksim.yevmenkin at savvis.net
Thu Mar 24 14:09:20 PST 2005


Hello,

> I have a couple of bluetooth USB dongles and I would like to use these to connect my laptop to my home LAN.
> I went through the basic setup steps described in handbook. I have configured hcsecd, sdpd and rfcomm_ppdd.

ok

> hcsecd.conf
> device {
>         bdaddr  00:20:E0:27:8C:0C;
>         name    "URKO";
>         key     nokey;
>         pin     "1234";
> }

that looks fine

> ppp.conf
> rfcomm-server:
>  set timeout 0
>  set lqrperiod 10
>  set ifaddr 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.11-192.168.1.20 255.255.255.0
>  accept dns
>  enable lqr
>  enable proxy
>  accept lqr
>  disable pap
>  deny pap
>  disable chap
>  deny chap

that looks fine to.

> Freebsd gateway has address 192.168.1.1.
> 
> ipconfig on windows laptop
>  Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
>    Description . . . . . . . . . . . : WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface
>    Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-53-45-00-00-00
>    DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
>    IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.12
>    Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
>    Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.12
>    DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 193.2.1.66
>                                            193.2.1.72

ok

> It connects fine... I can send mails and receive them...
> But when i try to open a webpage it disconnects... and doesnt open a page...
> Whats wrong? 

huh? what do you mean "disconnects"? is lan connection does down or you 
just cant open web pages? if you can send and receive emails then 
browser should work just fine. any errors on either side? anything the 
log (/var/log/ppp.log and /var/log/messages)?

max


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