Re: tap devices and DHCP.

2005-09-25 Thread 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

Re: tap devices and DHCP.

2005-09-22 Thread Sten Daniel Sørsdal
> > > 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 dhc

Re: tap devices and DHCP.

2005-09-22 Thread Marcin Jessa
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:35:06 +0100 (BST) Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Marcin Jessa wrote: > > > I do not know if it's meant to be that way but tap devices cannot > > get IPs assigned with DHCP. I did not check the old dhclient code > > but the new one cannot

Re: tap devices and DHCP.

2005-09-22 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Marcin Jessa wrote: I do not know if it's meant to be that way but tap devices cannot get IPs assigned with DHCP. I did not check the old dhclient code but the new one cannot hand over DHCP requests to tap devices. I was sure a tap device acted as an ethernet device even