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To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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Subject: Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC... 
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> I thought we decided that the networking gurus we're going to make it
> possible to send out broadcast packets on an unconfigured interface so
> that DHCP would work, so that bpf wasn't required.

I believe we decided that this would be the preferred method, yes.  I
don't think, however, that we decided that this was likely to show up
in any reasonable amount of time or that anyone had decided to do the
actual work. :-)

- Jordan


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