From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 17 06:31:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA20808 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 06:31:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles324.castles.com [208.214.167.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20707 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 13:30:48 GMT (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA00369; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 06:27:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804171327.GAA00369@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Bob Bishop cc: Mike Smith , Terry Lambert , archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs), jim.king@mail.sstar.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DHCP client/server integration (import proposal) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:37:53 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 06:27:39 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > At 7:01 am +0100 17/4/98, Mike Smith wrote: > >[...] > >There is nothing useful you can do to "support" a client using this > >behaviour; if you tell it to get lost, and it ignores you and decides > >to use a 10/8 address on your network, you have no way of telling where > >it went, and no way of telling it, again, to sod off. > > Depends how you reply to its ARP queries 8-} One of the great disappointments (in my eyes, anyway) of Ethernet is that you can't narrowcast a 50kV packet - you tend to lose a lot of your biting power doing collateral damage on the way to the target. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message