An interface with this name is not registered with the router

[Mug]

Hi all, I'm new here, and this seems like a good place to get some support so I'll just go right ahead and explain what my problem is.

 

Well, here's what im trying to do.

I have a Mobile Phone that has bluetooth. I have a bluetooth adapter on my PC.

 

I have set it up so my phone D+ Connects (Direct connects, if you will) to my BlueTooth adapter on my PC. Then the PC routs this BlueTooth adapter to a vitrual com port. I have set up my PC to recieve incomming connections from this Com port.

 

With this done, my phone and PC become their own little LAN. But I want my phone to join in on my home LAN, so I have to use NAT routing through my PC's NIC.

 

Now, to share my internet connection on my LAN with my Phone, i need to use NAT routing. So that information coming and going from my phone gets routed through my PC's network card and joins in the folley of my home LAN, which includes the internet access that my LAN has. (I have a router connected to my switch providing internet access to all machines on the LAN).

 

So this means i have to use NAT. I don't know much about NAT but I have a set-by-step guide telling me how to do what I need to do (its here: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/mraento/symbian/bt-ap.html )

 

The part in question is these 3 lines I need to execute:

netsh routing ip nat install

netsh routing ip nat add interface "YOUR LAN INTERFACE NAME" full

netsh routing ip nat add interface Internal private

 

The first works, and so does the last.

when i run:

netsh routing ip nat add interface "Local Area Connection" full

 

i get this error:

An interface with this name is not registered with the router.

 

So I scoured the internet looking for answers. On this forum, I read i should use:

netsh interface show interface

 

to list all my interfaces and find out the actual name of my interface. But all it lists are these two interfaces:

Admin State State Type Interface Name

-----------------------------------------------------------

Enabled Connected Loopback Loopback

Enabled Connected Internal Internal

 

I.e. Loopback, and Internal

 

I have an interface in my PC named "Local Area Connection".

 

I have NO idea why it's not "Registered with the router". Does anyone know what could be causing this error?

 

Im not using any service packs, by the way