* Graham Toal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-10-27 16:35]: > (description of why it can't work deleted for brevity) > > > Now, your "bridge" should bridge this dhcp-packet from one interface to the > > other? That doesn't work: its sending this packet out through that > > interface, it can't send it out on all other interfaces. > > So there's no solution? I see now that the packet flow doesn't support it, > but logically it does make sense to want an IP from that DHCP server > to be given to the other interface, after all any systems hanging off that > interface *will* get an address from the DHCP server on the other > side of the bridge, so why shouldn't I? There has to be some way > around it? Some pf re-routing trick?
nothing similar will help you, since dhclient uses bpf which is very very deep in the stack, bridging and pf happen further up. -- BS Web Services, http://www.bsws.de/ OpenBSD-based Webhosting, Mail Services, Managed Servers, ... Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
