tap devices and DHCP.

[Brooks Davis]

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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