Re: [coLinux-devel] tap vs bridged

[Alejandro R. S. <as...@MI...>]

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 19:17, ch...@to... wrote:
> Do I understand this correctly?
> 
> bridged would be like a forewarding alias on the physical card of the
> machine and on the same physical lan. And if using dhcp it would use the
> networks real dhcp server.
> 
> tap would be used if you wanted to have windows host to share it's network
> connection and provide NAT and dhcp.
> 
> chris

The bridged connection essentially 'shares' the host's NIC, using
winPCap to send out packets and listen for packets that it should
receive. Your dhcp example is right on, it would use the real dhcp
server.

-Alejandro