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Date:      Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:35:35 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Implementing IP_SENDIF (like SO_BINDTODEVICE)
Message-ID:  <41812DE7.7020908@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <m2ekjjtw1b.wl@minion.local.neville-neil.com>
References:  <20041027073858.GC719@empiric.icir.org> <417FF6D6.4010201@elischer.org>	<20041027195233.GC770@empiric.icir.org> <m2ekjjtw1b.wl@minion.local.neville-neil.com>

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George V. Neville-Neil wrote:

>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 :-)
>

netgraph requires root privs to set up a graph..

>
>Later,
>George
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