Also, which I ran into this... bridging passes all traffic from eth0 or whatever is bridged to the tap device... ie dhcp requests. My tests showed that unless I used a bridge as opposed to a regular tap interface, I couldn't run a dhcp server sucsessfully.

Regards,

Rolf Brusletto

Paul Warren wrote:
[ follow up to -user only ]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:25:58PM +0530, Adil  Mujeeb, Noida wrote:

what is the use of attaching the host interface in the bridge? Without
attaching the host interface in the bridge we can simply bring down the host
interface with ip 0.0.0.0 & assign the host interface ip to the bridge.
What is the significance of attaching the host interface to the bridge any
specific reason??


If you do not add the host interface to the bridge, then guests
connected to the bridge will not have access to the external network.
In order for the bridge to pass packets to particular networks (e.g. the
ethernet network connected to eth0) the interface connected to that
network must be part of the bridge.

Paul


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