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Date:      Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:10:16 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        marc@bowtie.nl
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is it possible to ..
Message-ID:  <199801260810.JAA06790@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <199801260935.KAA27363@bowtie.nl> from "Marc van Kempen" at Jan 26, 98 10:34:52 am

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> send/receive udp (broadcast) packets when you don't know 
> your IP nr. yet? It must be possible since bootp does it,
> but how?

look at the netboot or kernel_bootp sources (the latter in /sys/nfs i
believe). It uses a local ip of 0.0.0.0 (for kernel bootp, it probably
assigns this address to the local interface first.)

	luigi



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