Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:02:40 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901310001280.304-100000@s204m82.isp.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199902090639.WAA08295@kithrup.com>
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I'm not convinced that DHCP CLIENT needs to have everything wide open. It sends a broadcast, but the response is directed. On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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