Comment 11 for bug 204010

Quoting Todd Deshane (<email address hidden>):
> what happens when you do
> ifdown eth0
> ifup eth0

root@etch:~# ifdown eth0; sleep 1; ifup eth0
ifdown: interface eth0 not configured
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:16:3e:45:73:dd
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:16:3e:45:73:dd
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
root@hardy64:~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:3e:45:73:dd
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:2394 (2.3 KB)

It's obvious it is sending packages.
From my dhcp server log:
Mar 24 18:56:06 firewall dnsmasq[23084]: DHCPDISCOVER(eth1) 00:16:3e:45:73:dd
Mar 24 18:56:06 firewall dnsmasq[23084]: DHCPOFFER(eth1) 192.168.42.163 00:16:3e:45:73:dd
Mar 24 18:56:06 firewall dnsmasq[23084]: DHCPDISCOVER(eth1) 00:16:3e:45:73:dd
Mar 24 18:56:06 firewall dnsmasq[23084]: DHCPOFFER(eth1) 192.168.42.163 00:16:3e:45:73:dd
[ad infinitum]
It's being offered an ip address but that packet never reaches the dom0
The bridge is a "one-way-street"

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