Re: tap devices and DHCP.
From: Brooks Davis (brooks_at_one-eyed-alien.net)
Date: 09/25/05
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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:31:06 -0700 To: Sten Daniel Sørsdal <lists@wm-access.no>
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 02:10:50PM +0200, Sten Daniel Sørsdal wrote:
> > >
> > I have a bridge with one fxp0 nic (which I renamed to net0) and one tap1
> > device. The other end runs linux as DHCP server on LAN.
> > It communicates with the DHCP server through the fxp0 device which is a
> > member of the same bridge.
> >
>
> Then it would in my opinion be more correct to run dhclient on the
> bridge interface.
> However bridge0 doesnt seem to support broadcast packets which are
> necessary for DHCP to work. That could be the problem.
It seems incorrect to be able to assign an address to an interface that
is a member of an if_bridge bridge. I'm not 100% certain this is the
case, but it seems right. If that's the case, dhclient should not work
on member interfaces.
-- Brooks
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