Phil,

Please configure your mailer to fold long lines. Each of your paragraphs is
actually one long line of text.

Thanks

Phil DeVries wrote:
> I use bridge br0 to link a tun/tap interface and eth0.
> I do this to give full networking functionality to a QEMU instance running
> Windows.  (Using VDE)  The bridge br0 gets its ip address by DCHP from our
> corporate gateway.  The QEMU windows instance gets a separate ip address
> from the corporate gateway.  So, for example, br0 may get ip address
> 192.168.1.123, and the QEMU windows may get ip address 192.168.1.130.
> I filter traffic through the bridge.  All worked fine until kernel 2.6.20.
> 
> I have followed the revised bridge instructions.  If I manually assign Windows
> its IP address (in windows control panel, using an address within the
> range set up in shorewall), all works find, and traffic is correctly filtered.
> However, if I set Windows up to get its address via DHCP, it always fails.
> The bridge itself correctly gets an IP address via DHCP.
> 
> I've done the following things to try to troubleshoot this:
> 
> 1.    Set all REJECT rules in the "policy" file to log INFO.
> Shorewall doesn't seem to generate a reject log indicating blocking
> of the DCHP traffic from Windows.

> 2.    Set all rules (in "policy" to the zone set for the firewall to
>       ACCEPT.  This did not work.
> 3.    If I set the policy "all all ACCEPT", then windows DHCP does work.
> 
> I'm stumped.  I'd appreciate some help figuring out how to make this work
> again.  I can provide my configuration if that is helpful.

This is a limitation in the 'revised bridge' implementation. DHCP relies on
broadcasts that have a source IP address of 0.0.0.0.

Try adding that address to the zone that corresponds to the Windows system
and see if that helps.

-Tom
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