From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 17:10:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4235116A403; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:10:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F39F213C468; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:10:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.66) with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1HRtSz-0005UW-6e>; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:10:17 +0100 Received: from e178062211.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.62.211] helo=[192.168.1.128]) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.66) with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1HRtSz-00073a-49>; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:10:17 +0100 Message-ID: <45F97E50.9080403@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:11:44 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070306) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bakul Shah References: <20070315155839.86AA45B49@mail.bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: <20070315155839.86AA45B49@mail.bitblocks.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 85.178.62.211 Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, "Bruce M. Simpson" Subject: Re: tap device at boot time X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:10:19 -0000 Bakul Shah wrote: >> 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.... > You're completely right, so the docu says. Last time I tried, my net admin says he sees the MAC of the tap device. I will check this this weekend, maybe in this case we do have a kind of misunderstanding. Regards, Oliver