From owner-cvs-all Wed Sep 16 12:21:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15543 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:21:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15528 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:21:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA07963; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:20:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:20:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199809161920.PAA07963@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: Studded , Garrett Wollman , Brian Somers , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DHCP in the base In-Reply-To: <19980916115108.F24012@nuxi.com> References: <29788.905873035@critter.freebsd.dk> <199809152113.WAA04879@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> <19980916000952.E15240@nuxi.com> <199809161422.KAA06798@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <35FFFCA0.1EE20978@dal.net> <19980916115108.F24012@nuxi.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > relations to WIDE, we could see if they would be willing to look at > makeing their client so it doens't require bpf. It doesn't have anything to do with the particular brand of client. The problem is that the network code assumes, at a very deep level, that you can't have any IP traffic until you have an address configured (and this is wrong, but requires work to fix). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick