On Sat, 09 Feb 2002 09:02:31 Chris Leavoy wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm having a little difficulty with dhcp over the bridge. The problem is > that the bridge itself is a client of the dhcp server. To my surprise, it > *almost* works! The clients behind the bridge are able to lease an ip > from a dhcp server on the other side of the bridge. But unfortunately, > the bridge machine itself is having problems getting an IP. When I run > dhcpcd on the bridge interface, nothing seems to happen. Oddly though, > when I run dhcpcd on the actual interface, it can lease an ip just fine.. > but nothing works.
This is somewhat conjectural, since my experience is from a different setup. I use a bridging firewall (among others), and had problems getting the log messages off the machine to the log server. The solution to my problem was adding a virtual interface with a real address. I'd imagine you could do it the other way round: 1. let eth0 (or whatever) acquire an IP address from the DHCP server 2. add eth0:1 without an address (ifconfig eth0:1 0.0.0.0 up) 3. add eth0:1 to the bridge. Perhaps this'll work. Torsten L�ttgert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- ________________________________________________________ Telefon +49 (30) 59 00 69-25 Telefax +49 (30) 59 00 69-99 COM.BOX-WINET GmbH & Co.KG Potsdamer Strasse 96 - D-10785 Berlin Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg - HRB 71171 Gesch�ftsf�hrer: Lutz Treutler <http://www.combox.de/> - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
