Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 22:39:29 -0800 (PST) From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ Message-ID: <199902090639.WAA08295@kithrup.com> In-Reply-To: <19990209082922.17759.qmail.kithrup.freebsd.current@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <199902090553.VAA05212@kithrup.com> from Sean Eric Fagan at "Feb 8, 1999 9:53:11 pm"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In article <19990209082922.17759.qmail.kithrup.freebsd.current@rucus.ru.ac.za> you write: >- DHCP-WIDE requires you to have bpf configured into your kernel > for a GENERIC kernel, this is VERY BAD - is there a more elegant > way to handle this? I certainly would not like to see the > generic kernel in the distribution going out into the world with > bpf enabled. So does isc-dhcp. There's really no other way to do it: you need the ability to grab packets that come from an unidentified machine, which doesn't have an IP address. You could write some other method of doing this -- and then put it into every single ethernet (et al) device driver -- or you could just use BPF, which really isn't all that large. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199902090639.WAA08295>