Went as far as to turn STP off for the bridge.  Upgrading to 2.4.17 after
reading some snippits that implied that there was some bridge-related
stuff fixed recently helped.  I was successfully able to bind dhcpd to
the bridge device.

Dan

On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:

> Have you tried setting the stp timers to small values?  Try something
> like:
>
>       # brctl setfd br0 0
>
>
> cheers    --Lennert
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 05:21:02PM -0800, Daniel M. DiPasquo wrote:
>
> >
> > Has anyone successfully attached dhcpd to a bridge device (e.g. bridge0)
> > or an interface that's in the bridge (e.g. eth1 in bridge0)?  Mailing list
> > archives sort of hint at it, but I haven't found any confirmation that it
> > can be done.
> >
> > If I attach dhcpd to bridge0, dhcpd doesn't see any DHCPDISCOVER probes
> > that should be going across the bridge.
> >
> > If I attach dhcpd to eth1, which is in bridge0, dhcpd reports seeing
> > DCHPDISCOVER packets, and sending out DHCPDOFFER packets in response, but
> > the client never receives them and eventually times out.
> >
> > I have been trying for much of this week to no avail, and I haven't found
> > any documentation on doing so or if it is known to be possible or
> > impossible.  My attempts to locate where the break is are difficult
> > because tcpdump (even tcpdump 3.7.1) gives me very little information on
> > traffic "in the bridge".  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dan
> >
>

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