Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:11:44 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: tap device at boot time Message-ID: <45F97E50.9080403@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <20070315155839.86AA45B49@mail.bitblocks.com> References: <20070315155839.86AA45B49@mail.bitblocks.com>
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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
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