Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 00:53:39 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Geoff Rehmet <geoffr@is.co.za> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ Message-ID: <19990209005339.F19070@relay.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <19990209093459.19184.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za>; from Geoff Rehmet on Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 09:34:59AM %2B0000 References: <199902090718.XAA10270@kithrup.com> <19990209093459.19184.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za>
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> It may even be necessary to use bpf initially, but there must be a more
> elegant way - having a quick look around - it would be a good idea to
> look at the code which already exists in libstand
> (/usr/src/lib/libstand/bootp.c).
There is.
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:20:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Message-Id: <199809161920.PAA07963@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
..snip..
The problem is that the network code assumes, at a very deep level,
that you can't have any IP traffic until you have an address
configured (and this is wrong, but requires work to fix).
-GAWollman
Unfortunately, I don't have the knowledge of the part of the kernel that
needs changing.
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-- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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