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Date:      Wed, 7 Feb 1996 16:14:17 -0500
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        Weber@AUX.BFS.UWM.EDU (Dan Weber), questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Obtaining a IP address from MS DHCP
Message-ID:  <9602072114.AA21449@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199602072045.NAA06318@phaeton.artisoft.com>
References:  <31185770@AUX.BFS.UWM.EDU> <199602072045.NAA06318@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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<<On Wed, 7 Feb 1996 13:45:59 -0700 (MST), Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> said:

> Clearly, you'd need a program that could do a raw DHCP request using
> an unconfigured network card.

Which shouldn't be too hard, really: all you have to do is create a
little machinery in the kernel to allow you to send designated packets
out an interface you choose while IP has not yet been configured for
that interface.

IPv6 will make this much, much easier, since any Ethernet-connected
host will be able to invent a locally-valid address on the fly.

-GAWollman

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