From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 9 03:22:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA03339 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 03:22:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA03330 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 03:22:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id AAA19594; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 00:53:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 00:53:39 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Geoff Rehmet Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ Message-ID: <19990209005339.F19070@relay.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199902090718.XAA10270@kithrup.com> <19990209093459.19184.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <19990209093459.19184.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za>; from Geoff Rehmet on Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 09:34:59AM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It may even be necessary to use bpf initially, but there must be a more > elegant way - having a quick look around - it would be a good idea to > look at the code which already exists in libstand > (/usr/src/lib/libstand/bootp.c). There is. Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:20:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199809161920.PAA07963@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> ..snip.. 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 Unfortunately, I don't have the knowledge of the part of the kernel that needs changing. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message