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Re: How do I configure a bridge adapter to get a DHCP address?

From Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.networking
Subject Re: How do I configure a bridge adapter to get a DHCP address?
Date 2014-09-01 08:57 +0200
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akshay rao <fakemailrao@gmail.com> wrote:,
>I want to configure a bridge adapter to get an IP address from the DHCP server on my LAN.  
>
>How do I do this?

If you mean a bridge interface like br0, configured with the brctl or
the ip -f bridge command, you simply do the same with br0 that you
were used to do with eth0. In your case, dhclient br0.

If you had a working configuration for eth0 before going bridge, just
move that configuration to br0.

Greetings
Marc
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How do I configure a bridge adapter to get a DHCP address? akshay rao <fakemailrao@gmail.com> - 2014-08-30 10:53 -0700
  Re: How do I configure a bridge adapter to get a DHCP address? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-08-31 01:18 +0200
    Re: How do I configure a bridge adapter to get a DHCP address? Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com> - 2014-08-30 16:52 -0700
      Re: How do I configure a bridge adapter to get a DHCP address? akshay rao <fakemailrao@gmail.com> - 2014-08-30 23:16 -0700
        Re: How do I configure a bridge adapter to get a DHCP address? detha <detha@foad.co.za> - 2014-08-31 10:29 +0200
  Re: How do I configure a bridge adapter to get a DHCP address? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2014-09-01 08:57 +0200

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