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Date:      Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:31:31 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Geoff Rehmet" <geoffr@is.co.za>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/
Message-ID:  <199902091531.KAA16469@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19990209091330.18608.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za>
References:  <199902090639.WAA08295@kithrup.com> <19990209091330.18608.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za>

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<<On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:13:30 +0000 (GMT), "Geoff Rehmet" <geoffr@is.co.za> said:

> The issue, as I understand it, is to get a reply from an unknown server
> (who has an IP address), while you have no IP address.  

You also have to send a packet *from* 0.0.0.0 (since you have no IP
address).  I'm almost irritated enough to consider fixing this this
week.

-GAWollman

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