Re: Emulating multiple nics with one

Another quick question. This is probably because I'm a little clueless
as to what exactly the "bridge" does. Why do I need a pair of tap
devices? Can't I just have the tap device that's in the bridge have
it's own mac address and get an ip using dhcp. Or is this because any
device that is part of a nic can no longer have it's own identity?

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