From: Nolan Leake <nolan@cumulusnetworks.com>
To: Jim <jim876@xs4all.nl>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tap0 device stopped working in 2.6.36 (ok in 2.6.35)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:18:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1288142302.26640.7.camel@voxel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC40398.6070105@xs4all.nl>
On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 11:59 +0200, Jim wrote:
> Thanks for explaining the purpose of the patch.
> But it appears something is missing and I think it breaks current
> userspace. I use this tap0 device together with VirtualBox, I have a
> virtual machine setup as bridged to tap0, not a very odd or strange
> setup (this used to be the only method).
> On the host side I run dhcpd to hand out IP address to the virtual
> machine, but despite the dhcpd running on the tap0 device it never got
> 'ready' in the sense that no IP packets made it out from the host to the
> guest.
To make sure I understand the situation, is this correct (ignoring the
exact names of the interfaces):
br0 bridges between eth0 and tap0, and you run dhcpd on tap0?
Since tap0 is part of the bridge, I think dhcpd should be running on
br0. Does that work?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-27 1:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-23 12:55 tap0 device stopped working in 2.6.36 (ok in 2.6.35) Jim
2010-10-23 19:39 ` Nolan Leake
2010-10-24 9:59 ` Jim
2010-10-27 1:18 ` Nolan Leake [this message]
2010-10-27 16:09 ` Jim
2010-10-27 17:48 ` Nolan Leake
2010-10-27 17:52 ` David Miller
2010-11-03 23:10 ` Nolan Leake
2010-11-04 20:17 ` Jim
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