Bakul Shah wrote: >> maybe this is slightly OT, but I tried using /dev/tap0 by QEMU on FBSD 7.0-CU >> RRENT and 6.2-STABLE at boottime. >> > > ... > > >> (MAC_ADDRESS replaced by a valid MAC address). Reason ist I try to get an IP >> via DHCP - this is restricted by our computer center and their DHCP maintenan >> ce so I do not have influence on that. I need to provide them a fix MAC addre >> ss. >> > > My response is definitely off topic but with qemu don't you > need a fixed mac address for the *guest* OS if you want your > to assign an IP address via DHCP? For that you use -net > nic,MACADDR so that the guest will use MACADDR. tap0 mac > address doesn't matter. Or may be I misunderstand you.... >
You're completely right, so the docu says. Last time I tried, my net admin says he sees the MAC of the tap device. I will check this this weekend, maybe in this case we do have a kind of misunderstanding. Regards, Oliver _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
