diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c
index 4e38b4872865..ce67d0ff486f 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ static void hci_le_connect(struct hci_conn *conn)
 	cp.scan_interval = cpu_to_le16(0x0004);
 	cp.scan_window = cpu_to_le16(0x0004);
 	bacpy(&cp.peer_addr, &conn->dst);
+	cp.peer_addr_type = conn->dst_type;
 	cp.conn_interval_min = cpu_to_le16(0x0008);
 	cp.conn_interval_max = cpu_to_le16(0x0100);
 	cp.supervision_timeout = cpu_to_le16(0x0064);