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 -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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