All, I am running a 2.4.17 kernel and have a bridge br0 that contains eth0 and eth1. I want to run my DHCP client on the br0 interface (DHCP server can be on eth0 or eth1).
Now I run into the problem that replies from the DHCP server are not received by the DHCP client, apparently because the bridge enters the forwarding state only after a certain delay (bridge forward delay). From what I found in the mailing list, this problem can be solved by assigning a small value to the forward delay, but that sure wasn't the intention of the forwarding delay. My question is: why are packets only passed up to the bridge's IP stack when the state is FORWARDING. I would say that the bridge would pass up packets in any state, or at least in the LEARNING state. I think this would solve the DHCP problem. Am I missing something here? Michiel _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
