Re: [Bluez-users] DHCPD and Bluetooth

["Rob Taft" <rtaft@sensis.com>]

hotplug is installed.  I added some lines to /etc/hotplug/usb/bluefw to
verify that it is getting executed, but it never does.  Nor does it get
executed when I type "hotplug usb" or "hotplug usb/bluefw"

Secondly, it seems to me that the hotplug scripts supposed to be called when
a hardware device is connected.  This is not my issue.  I am trying to get a
Windows (or any OS) Client to connect to a Linux Server via Bluetooth.  When
there is nothing connected to the server, bnep0 is not listed in ifconfig.
Now I've managed to get it to automatically assign an IP to the Server's
Bluetooth when a Client connects by creating
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bnep0 with the following data:

DEVICE=bnep0
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no
IPADDR=192.168.3.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
BROADCAST=192.168.3.255

This solves half my problem..setting the IP of bnep0 when a client connects,
since the IP is lost when the client disconnects.

The other half of the problem is the DHCP server.  Once the client
disconnects from the server, bnep0 drops the IP, and DHCP no longer serves
IP's for it.  When a new client connects, I need the DHCP server to begin
serving bnep0 again.  One way to do it is to restart the DHCP server, but if
I take that approach, I need to know when the client connets so I can
restart it.  I don't think hotplug is what I am looking for since it is
hardware connection based.

Rob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michal Semler" <cijoml@volny.cz>
To: <bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] DHCPD and Bluetooth


> On Wednesday 12 of May 2004 19:55, Rob Taft wrote:
> > Changing my OS isn't exactly an option at this point.
>
> All distributions have hotplug scripts inside. Just use you package system
and
> install it
>
> Michal
>
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: Mykel
> >   To: Rob Taft
> >   Cc: bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> >   Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 12:44 PM
> >   Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] DHCPD and Bluetooth
> >
> >
> >   I know Slackware has hotplug scripts. You might want to look there.
> >
> >   Myke
> >
> >
> >   Rob Taft wrote:
> >     I currently have a setup where I have a Bluetooth adapter on a Linux
> > box, and one on Windows.  Everything is configured properly.  I connect
> > from the Windows Bluetooth adapter to the Linux one via "Local Area
> > Connection 2" in XP over TCP/IP.  I manually type "ifconfig bnep0
> > 192.168.3.1" to assign the adapter an IP, then I have to restart DHCPD
to
> > acquire an IP address over Bluetooth.  This all works great.
> >
> >     My first question is:  Is there a way to recognize when a connection
is
> > made, so I can create a script or some code to automatically set bnep0
to
> > 192.168.3.1 and restart the dhcp server?
> >
> >     I only have 2 Bluetooth adapters.  What if I used a 3rd from windows
to
> > connect to Linux at the same time another one is connected.  Will it
allow
> > multiple connections?  Will it show up as bnep1 or still use bnep0?
> >
> >
> >
> >     Rob Taft, Software Engineer
> >     Perigee, A Division of Sensis Corporation
> >     rtaft@sensis.com
> >     315-453-7842, Ext. 25
>
>
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