From: "William M. Quarles" <quarlewm@jmu.edu>
To: bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Bluez-users] Re: Beginner with PAND
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:02:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d4c6it$hjp$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1114165056.32265.56.camel@pegasus>
Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi William,
>
>
>>I am trying to set up one of my computers to work as an Internet router
>>for other bluetooth devices. I'm trying to use pand, and I notice that
>>it has this -e flag. I use it to designate the ethernet device name
>>that I want to give to my bluetooth stack/dongle (someone correct me if
>>I am not understanding this correctly). Well, ifconfig doesn't reveal
>>another device when pand is running. I can't network to a device that
>>doesn't exist. So what do I do?
>
>
> the bnep0 device is only created when you actually created the BNEP
> connection. To set the IP before the connection you must use a Bridge on
> top the bnepX interfaces. Check the PAN howto for details.
Why do I need a bridge? I don't have to create a bridge in MS Windows
XP to set this up. I don't really want a bridge either. Are you sure
that there isn't another way?
William
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-23 1:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-21 22:10 [Bluez-users] Beginner with PAND William M. Quarles
2005-04-22 10:17 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-04-22 23:30 ` [Bluez-users] " William M. Quarles
2005-04-23 1:02 ` William M. Quarles [this message]
2005-04-23 10:39 ` Marcel Holtmann
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