Re: [Bluez-users] Setting up an hotplug connection with USB dongles

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Rainer,

> thanks for that very useful link.
> 
> If have everything up an running, only two minor issues left on the PANU side:
> 
> 1. It seems that I need to do an "hcitool scan" to make pand --search working, 
> e.g.
> 
>               hcitool scan
>               pand --nodetach --role PANU --search --encrypt 
> --pidfile /var/run/pand.pid
> 
> It does work without hcitool scan, when I use the BT device address
> 
>               pand --connect <BT device address>
> 
> 2. On the client side, I do not get dhcp to work. When I run 
> 
>                dhclient bnep0
> 
> I see on the PANU (from syslog):
> 
> Dec 19 23:07:42 topsi dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on bnep0 to 255.255.255.255 port 
> 67 interval 5
> Dec 19 23:07:42 topsi dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
> Dec 19 23:07:47 topsi dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on bnep0 to 255.255.255.255 port 
> 67 interval 10
> Dec 19 23:07:47 topsi dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
> Dec 19 23:07:49 topsi dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on bnep0 to 255.255.255.255 port 
> 67 interval 10
> Dec 19 23:07:49 topsi dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
> Dec 19 23:07:57 topsi dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on bnep0 to 255.255.255.255 port 
> 67 interval 14
> Dec 19 23:07:57 topsi dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
> Dec 19 23:07:59 topsi dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on bnep0 to 255.255.255.255 port 
> 67 interval 1
> Dec 19 23:07:59 topsi dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
> Dec 19 23:08:00 topsi dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
> Dec 19 23:08:00 topsi dhclient: No working leases in persistent database.
> Dec 19 23:08:00 topsi dhclient: Sleeping.
> Dec 19 23:08:11 topsi dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on bnep0 to 255.255.255.255 port 
> 67 interval 14
> Dec 19 23:08:11 topsi dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
> Dec 19 23:08:25 topsi dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on bnep0 to 255.255.255.255 port 
> 67 interval 15
> Dec 19 23:08:25 topsi dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
> Dec 19 23:08:40 topsi dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on bnep0 to 255.255.255.255 port 
> 67 interval 3
> Dec 19 23:08:40 topsi dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
> Dec 19 23:08:43 topsi dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
> Dec 19 23:08:43 topsi dhclient: No working leases in persistent database.
> Dec 19 23:08:44 topsi dhclient: Sleeping.
> 
> There is no entry in the syslog file in the DHCP server (which is NAP). Its 
> dhcpd.conf looks like this:
> 
> # Bluetooth
> subnet 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>   range 192.168.2.100 192.168.2.150;
> #  option broadcast-address 204.254.239.31;
>   option domain-name "vix.com";
>   option domain-name-servers 192.168.2.1;
>   option broadcast-address 192.168.2.255;
>   option routers 192.168.2.1;
> }
> 
> Any ideas are welcome.

as I said, use the standard Debian stuff for configuring the network
interfaces. If you got problems setup a bridge that covers all the PAN
connections.

Regards

Marcel




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