Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:29:36 +0900 From: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Implementing IP_SENDIF (like SO_BINDTODEVICE) Message-ID: <m2ekjjtw1b.wl@minion.local.neville-neil.com> In-Reply-To: <20041027195233.GC770@empiric.icir.org> References: <20041027073858.GC719@empiric.icir.org> <417FF6D6.4010201@elischer.org> <20041027195233.GC770@empiric.icir.org>
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At Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:52:33 -0700, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > > 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. > Just one quick question. Does the use of this option require root privilege? I think it should :-) Later, George
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