On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 12:44 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > But when the host is really on the network, it uses DHCP to set the IP, > while in a VM it never sends any DHCP packets, the setting of the IP > times out, and I wind up with no IP until I set it. I have checked with > tcpdump, the DHCP requests for IP appear on the bridge, but not on the > eth0 NIC, and so are never seen by the DHCP server. > > Do you see this problem, or have any information about it? Obviously > suggestions on fixing this are needed, since the dhcp server is a > candidate for virtualization in the future.
Just to be certain of the obvious, you added eth0 to the bridge, right? brctl addif br0 eth0 And the tap device is active, right? ifconfig tap0 up Assuming it isn't something so obvious, I'm suspecting spanning tree. brctl stp br0 off -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
