[pve-devel] implementation of a dhcp service in proxmox ?

[Dietmar Maurer]

> > They seem to always use a bridge (also for nat/routed), with an ip address.
> >
> > So, I think the dhcp server listen on the bridge ip.
> >
> > For nat, I think the nat is done on the bridge ip.
> > For routed, I think that the gateway of the vm is the bridge ip.
> 
> That looks like a more sophisticated bridge setup. Such things are already
> possible by using the up/down hooks of /etc/network/interfaces?
> 
> I thought about a setup without a bridge involved (like venet in OpenVZ).

Or do they just use the bridge to setup the route for outgoing packets? If so, they still
need to run dhcp on the tap device (because dhcp need to be in the same network).