Re: vether(4)

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

Hi

On 22/04/2016 16:31, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
>> I'm hopeful that paired vether will allow me to run a DHCP server on one
>> vether and a DHCP client on another and they talk to each other, as they
>> don't over a bridge using either vether or tap(4).
> 
> why don't they?

Because the bridge doesn't multicast to member interfaces when packets
originate locally - they are just send to the member interface output.

I sent a patch to tech-net early this morning to fix this, the subject
is: bridge(4) - feedback local packets into ether_input()

Roy