GRML−BTNETS

NAME

grml-btnets − program to setup a bluetooth network access point (NAP)

SYNOPSIS

grml−btnets [OPTIONS] <ACTION>

DESCRIPTION

grml−btnets is a program that provides an easy wrapper around all the programms to create a ready to run network access point for bluetooth and additionally setup internet forwarding. If no pin is given for the bluetooth network, a random pin will be choosen.

ACTIONS

start

Start the network access point

stop

Stop the network access point

help

Show the help message.

OPTIONS

−h, help

Show summary of options.

−v

Show what is going on (more v ⇒ more out).

−s [subnet] (default=192.168.10.0/24)

The subnet for the bluetooth clients. There should be at least 8 IPs in this subnet (/28).

−i [interface] (default=eth0)

Enable IP−Forwarding for this interface, so that the bluetooth−network could, for example, connect to the internet. The nameservers come from your /etc/resolv.conf, so be aware to configure this before you run grml−btnets. Grml−btnets does not touch the ip_forward and iptables config without this option! Do not use this option if you already have a working internet gateway on your box. Grml−btnets assumes that the chain policy of forward is on accept. If this is not the case please let packages from interface grmlbtnet pass.

−p <pin>

The bluetooth pin. If no or an empty pin is given, a random one will be choosen and printed to stdout.

EXAMPLES

grml−btnets −p 1234 start

This creates a simple bluetooth access point (NAP) with default values. The subnet for the bluetooth network is 192.168.10.0/24. There will be no masquerading.

grml−btnets stop

Stops the NAP created with the command above.

grml−btnets −s 192.168.1.0 −i ppp0 start

This creates a NAP and the bluetooth clients get IPs within 192.168.1.0/24. This also creates masquerading out of ppp0 to let bluetooth clients onto the internet.

grml−btnets −i ppp0 stop

This command stops the NAP created with the commando above.

SEE ALSO

grml−btnet(8), grml−btnetc(8), pand(1), hcid(8), hcid.conf(5), hciconfig(8), hcidump(1), sdpd(8), sdptool(1)

AUTHOR

grml−btnets was written by Michael Gebetsroither <michael.geb@gmx.at [1] >.

This manual page was written by Michael Gebetsroither <gebi@grml.org [2] >.

AUTHOR

Michael Gebetsroither <michael.geb@gmx.at>

Author.

NOTES

1.

michael DOT geb AT gmx DOT at

mailto:michael DOT geb AT gmx DOT at

2.

gebi AT grml DOT org

mailto:gebi AT grml DOT org