Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:58:39 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: tap device at boot time Message-ID: <20070315155839.86AA45B49@mail.bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:27:02 BST." <45F965C6.4060901@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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> 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....
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