Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:00:00 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: obrien@NUXI.com, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: DHCP in the base Message-ID: <35FFFCA0.1EE20978@dal.net> References: <29788.905873035@critter.freebsd.dk> <199809152113.WAA04879@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> <19980916000952.E15240@nuxi.com> <199809161422.KAA06798@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman wrote: > > <<On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 00:09:52 -0700, "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> said: > > > lives in DHCP'vile, it is quite hard to get FreeBSD installed across the > > net when you can only get an IP address if already have FreeBSD > > installed, with bpf, and dhcp port installed.... > > I really want to fix the misfeatures in the UDP and IP code which > cause DHCP to require BPF. An ordinary client machine shouldn't have > to have packet-sniffing built in.... Obviously, this won't happen > until after 3.0. I saved a letter from the ISC DHCP maintainer about these issues, mostly railing on linux for doing the right thing on this, then backing off, although he gives the whole bpf thing a jibe or two as well. I'd be glad to get permission from ted to pass it on if anyone is interested. For the record, I think that contrib'ifying the ISC source would be good, then we could build the client by default and maybe add a make.conf toggle to build the server as needed? Having a dhcp client on the boot floppy will be much more important as cable modems become more popular and wide spread. There was some conversation previously about a very small dhcp client that would fit, I'll see if I can dig that up too if someone is interested. Doug
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