From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 9 00:11:19 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA21915 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 00:11:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA21910 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 00:11:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA26350 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 00:03:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from s204m82.isp.whistle.com(207.76.204.82) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpde26331; Tue Feb 9 08:03:00 1999 Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:02:40 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer X-Sender: julian@s204m82.isp.whistle.com To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ In-Reply-To: <199902090639.WAA08295@kithrup.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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