From owner-freebsd-net Mon Jan 14 22:37:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6993C37B404 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:37:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.141.91.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.141.91] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16QNDm-0007Wj-00; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:37:25 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0F6ap729657; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:36:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:36:47 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Kshitij Gunjikar Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DHCP and IP Input Message-ID: <20020114223647.B28767@blossom.cjclark.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from kshitijgunjikar@yahoo.com on Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 06:44:07PM +0530 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 06:44:07PM +0530, Kshitij Gunjikar wrote: > Hi All, > I have one question? If we have a FreeBSD box configured as a router and > we are not supporting a DHCP like protocol then do we drop packets with > 0.0.0.0 source address? As per RFC 1812 we must. You need to run a BOOTP or DHCP service to do the forwarding. See bootpgw(8) which is in the base system or dhcrelay(8) is part of the DHCPD port. -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message