From owner-cvs-all Wed Sep 16 11:02:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28744 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:02:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28735 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:02:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA24945; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:00:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <35FFFCA0.1EE20978@dal.net> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:00:00 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-0914 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Wollman CC: obrien@NUXI.com, Brian Somers , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: DHCP in the base References: <29788.905873035@critter.freebsd.dk> <199809152113.WAA04879@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> <19980916000952.E15240@nuxi.com> <199809161422.KAA06798@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Garrett Wollman wrote: > > < 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