Have spent this evening trying to share my broadband connection with the "bluetooth lan" connection. (would pull my hair out if I had any!)

Basically, can't just use Internet Connection Sharing in XP to share the connection, as my modem/firewall/router is the DHCP server on the my network, and I'd quite like it to stay that way (plus whenever I turn off DHCP on it, everything buggers up).

After a spot of Googling I read a guide for sharing bluetooth for ipaqs, which mentioning using the network bridge functionality of XP for such events. Tried it, broke both connections. Can't get it to work.

Anyone had any luck sharing bluetooth with a similar network configuration? :confused:

It works fine on my Ipaq, using good old activesync passthrough function. Network wise I have been able to access my local HD but nothing on the lan. Dont know how to do it in XP, but in NT4 you just enabled IP routing.

You're right about the bridging rather than the sharing. My computer has always been fine with this method - but some XP machines don't seem to like it. I had a look at a couple of friends' machines which don't work and couldn't see anything wrong :confused:. Sorry :(

Sorted it now - downloaded Mocha PPP which sits and listens for a connection on any given COM port, and then sorts out the internet access. That way I can use the BT serial port, rather than BT LAN...