Ethernet adapter Bluetooth Network Connection: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network) Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 50-xx-xx-xx-xx-F7 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

May i know what does Ethernet adapter Bluetooth Network Connection: means? As far as I know, ethernet is referring to wired connection but bluetooth is a wireless connection. And even my laptop is paired with my phone and the bluetooth is working fine, it shows media disconnected.

Thank You!

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That's a virtual Bluetooth network adapter mimicking Ethernet. If you don't use the Bluetooth networking profile it's disconnected.

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The interface shows up as Ethernet because Bluetooth PAN actually imitates Ethernet from the higher layers' point of view – the Bluetooth messages encapsulate whole Ethernet frames (with MAC addresses and such).

This means that instead of having to learn a completely new interface type, network tools (and IP itself) can just handle it like a traditional wired Ethernet interface.

(Wi-Fi does the same, actually. Although real Wi-Fi frames have a different structure, programs just see completely Ethernet-like frames when they use a Wi-Fi interface.)

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