From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 17 07:53:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA04258 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 07:53:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA04238 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:53:38 GMT (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/Spinner) with ESMTP id WAA04041; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 22:52:08 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199804171452.WAA04041@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Smith cc: Bob Bishop , 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 06:27:39 MST." <199804171327.GAA00369@antipodes.cdrom.com> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 22:52:07 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 Netplex Consulting To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message