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Date:      Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:22:50 +0200
From:      Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org>
To:        FreeBSD-Current <current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   tap devices and DHCP.
Message-ID:  <20050922092250.55b4716a.lists@yazzy.org>

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Hi guys.

I do not know if it's meant to be that way but tap devices cannot get IPs assigned with DHCP.
I did not check the old dhclient code but the new one cannot hand over DHCP requests to tap devices.
I was sure a tap device acted as an ethernet device even though it's a virtual one, since one can manually assign IP to tap.
It can however assign IP to a bridge (with DHCP) with dev tap as a member of it.
Could someone explain me please if this behaviour is on purpose or just a problem with DHCP?

Cheers,
Marcin.




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