On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 14:37 +0000, John Carr wrote: > On 12/8/07, Ochal Christophe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Actually, no. > > What you need is a fixed interface on the linux machine (this is the > > serial/bluetooth/whatchawantit interface) that listens to connecting > > devices. This side *HAS* a fixed ip that's different from your other ip > > address (on the interface facing your network), you *will* need to use > > iptables for routing if you want your PDA to get to the internet this > > way, but if not, all you need to do is run a dhcp server on the linux > > machine that's binding to the fixed ip address of the serial/bluetooth > > interface. > > Well thats obviously the logical choice. So far we force a device to > use an IP of our choice, however that breaks for at least the Moto Q. > This has an IP that seems to change randomly. Odccm has been modded to > let a user choose an IP, allowing the Moto Q to work. > > Its also worth noting that if you want the PDA to get the internet > some apps will work with standard routing. Others need DTPT.py to > supply the Desktop Passthrough Proxy. Joy. > > > No WM device i have seen sofar comes with a dhcp-server, only with a dhcp > > client. > > Are you absolutely certain? Well, i haven't seen one yet :P And like you said, it wouldn't be logical, however, wouldn't these devices be PDA/Phone combo's by change? I suppose, if they are phones, that they *might* have a dhcp-server integrated to allow other devices to connect to them to access the internet, but even in this situation it would strike me as very odd. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Projects/synce/usb-rndis-lite$ sudo ifconfig eth3 > eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:00:60:0f:e8:00 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:8050 Metric:1 > RX packets:7 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:340 (340.0 B) TX bytes:134 (134.0 B) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Projects/synce/usb-rndis-lite$ sudo dhclient eth3 > Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6 > Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium. > All rights reserved. > For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ > > Listening on LPF/eth3/80:00:60:0f:e8:00 > Sending on LPF/eth3/80:00:60:0f:e8:00 > Sending on Socket/fallback > DHCPDISCOVER on eth3 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 > DHCPOFFER from 169.254.2.1 > DHCPREQUEST on eth3 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 > DHCPACK from 169.254.2.1 > bound to 169.254.2.2 -- renewal in 1260637 seconds. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Projects/synce/usb-rndis-lite$ sudo ifconfig eth3 > eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:00:60:0f:e8:00 > inet addr:169.254.2.2 Bcast:169.254.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:8050 Metric:1 > RX packets:9 errors:8 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:944 (944.0 B) TX bytes:3971 (3.8 KiB) > > eth3 is the WM6 device i just plugged in. It's the same with my WM5 > device. What the hell is responding to the DHCP request??? What you're witnessing is, i'm guessing, zero-configuration, i say that because of the IP addresses involved (the 169.254/16 range), i did some quick checking, this is described in RFC3927. Also note that Avahi implements a plugin for dhclient to support RFC3927. I haven't read the specifics yet of both, but here are the links: RFC3927: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3927.txt Avahi: http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAutoipd > One thought I have is that the phone has some kind of fake DHCP thing > going on so that windows can auto configure the device with an IP when > you plug it in - the values it returns might come from the registry, > rather than a traditional DHCP server. (This fits with some keys that > we have been able to change in the past I think). It also fits with the zero-configuration system in that the WM device caches it's last known good ip address. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ SynCE-Devel mailing list SynCE-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synce-devel
