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Date:      Tue, 09 Feb 1999 20:09:55 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@execmail.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DHCP bpf alternatives 
Message-ID:  <199902091809.UAA61839@greenpeace.grondar.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of " Tue, 09 Feb 1999 09:58:17 MST." <199902091658.JAA20395@rembrandt.esys.ca> 
References:  <199902091658.JAA20395@rembrandt.esys.ca> 

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Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> 
> An alternative to dhclient and bpf would be to add an ioctl that would
> force an interface to initiate a DHCP configuration. This would allow
> for something like:
> 
> 	ifconfig ep0 dhcp
> 
> Of course, this means moving the entire DHCP state engine into the
> kernel ...

Erm, you forgot to include the patches to do this...

M
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