From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 9 08:58:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA08881 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 08:58:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rembrandt.esys.ca (rembrandt.esys.ca [198.161.92.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA08873 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 08:58:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lyndon@execmail.com) Received: from execmail.com (zappa.esys.ca [198.161.92.28]) by rembrandt.esys.ca (2.1/8.9.1/Execmail 2.1) with ESMTP id JAA20395 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:58:23 -0700 Message-Id: <199902091658.JAA20395@rembrandt.esys.ca> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:58:17 -0700 From: Lyndon Nerenberg Subject: DHCP bpf alternatives To: current@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG An alternative to dhclient and bpf would be to add an ioctl that would force an interface to initiate a DHCP configuration. This would allow for something like: ifconfig ep0 dhcp Of course, this means moving the entire DHCP state engine into the kernel ... --lyndon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message