[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq: no address range available for DHCP request via tap0

[TJ]

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 21:05 +0000, Simon Kelley wrote:
> It occurs to me (without looking too carefully at your setup, as I say,
> it's boggling) that the solution may already exist but be disabled.
> There is an option called --bridge-interface which says "(eg) treat
> packets arriving on tap0 as if they arrived in eth0" and might just work
> 
> bridge-interface=eth0,tap0
> 
> or
> 
> bridge-interface-eth0:0,tap0
> 
> You will have to recompile the code to get it, using
> 
> make COPTS=-DHAVE_BSD_BRIDGE
> 
> This was added for BSD virtual networking, it wasn't clear that it had a
> function on Linux, so it's not included on Linux builds. If it turns out
> to be useful, I'll include it everywhere.

Thanks Simon. I agree, it can become mind-numbing! I sae the
--bridge-interface option in the man-pages and did read up on it. I had
it in the back of my mind that it may be useful but I equated it with an
earlier attempt to handle alias interfaces before dnsmasq started using
the dhcp-range <-> interface IP correlation.

I'm in the middle of severely re-organising the PC right now so I won't
get chance to test it until later in the week.

I'll let you know how I get on.

TJ.