Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 22:52:07 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs), jim.king@mail.sstar.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DHCP client/server integration (import proposal) Message-ID: <199804171452.WAA04041@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Apr 1998 06:27:39 MST." <199804171327.GAA00369@antipodes.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith wrote: > > 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. I wish somebody would implement napalm-over-IP encapsulation... I could think of a few !@#!&@#^!@# spamming jerks that I'd love to tunnel a few suprises to. (Hmm... better still, forge the source address so it looks like it came from themselves :-) Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Netplex Consulting To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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