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Date:      Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:52:33 -0700
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Implementing IP_SENDIF (like SO_BINDTODEVICE)
Message-ID:  <20041027195233.GC770@empiric.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <417FF6D6.4010201@elischer.org>
References:  <20041027073858.GC719@empiric.icir.org> <417FF6D6.4010201@elischer.org>

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On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:28:22PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >It annoys me that we have to resort to BPF to send IP datagrams on
> >unnumbered interfaces. Here is a half baked idea. Please look and
> >tell me what you think.
> 
> I've sent lots of datagrams on un-numberred interfaces using netgraph..

I should qualify my post a bit more: I began thinking along these lines
with the intention of enabling ISC dhcp (and dhclient) to be compiled
without using bpf support. I don't have the time or interest to port ISC
dhcp to use netgraph, but I'd be interested to see the results if that
happened.

BMS


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