From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 9 07:31:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA28758 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 07:31:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA28751 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 07:31:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA16469; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:31:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:31:31 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199902091531.KAA16469@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Geoff Rehmet" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ In-Reply-To: <19990209091330.18608.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <199902090639.WAA08295@kithrup.com> <19990209091330.18608.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > The issue, as I understand it, is to get a reply from an unknown server > (who has an IP address), while you have no IP address. You also have to send a packet *from* 0.0.0.0 (since you have no IP address). I'm almost irritated enough to consider fixing this this week. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message