On Mon, 17 May 2004 12:02:58 +0200 Diego Liziero <liziero.diego@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks for your support. > > I'm back with the "brige freezes when bluetooth bnep0 disconnects > before bnep1" issue. > > As reported in the bluez-devel mailing list, in a bridge > called pan0 with the interfaces bnep0, bnep1, .. bnep6 > connected, if the interface bnep6 is disconnected first, > everything works fine, but if bnep0 is disconnected before > the others, the bridge stops to work. > > Arping from bnep1 to the brige results in just the first > answer received. > > To make it work again I have to use the following dirty hack: > brctl delif pan0 bnep1 > brctl addif pan0 bnep1 > > Someone in the bluez-devel mailing list told that also setting the > bridge in promiscuous mode with tcpdump makes the bridge > back to work. > > Now I'm removing and re-adding all the bridge components > when hotplug detects that a "bnep?" device ceases to exist. > > Any better solution? > > Regards, > Diego Sounds like an issue with how the bnep does promiscious mode. Do you see messages on the console like: device bnep0 left promiscious mode Also, the bnep driver seems to need BT_BNEP_MC_FILTER enabled to do multicast. When you remove bnep0 first, what does "brctl showstp pan0" show?