Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 06:27:39 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs), jim.king@mail.sstar.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DHCP client/server integration (import proposal) Message-ID: <199804171327.GAA00369@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:37:53 BST." <l03020908b15cc50f68fa@[194.32.164.2]>
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> At 7:01 am +0100 17/4/98, Mike Smith wrote: > >[...] > >There is nothing useful you can do to "support" a client using this > >behaviour; if you tell it to get lost, and it ignores you and decides > >to use a 10/8 address on your network, you have no way of telling where > >it went, and no way of telling it, again, to sod off. > > Depends how you reply to its ARP queries 8-} One of the great disappointments (in my eyes, anyway) of Ethernet is that you can't narrowcast a 50kV packet - you tend to lose a lot of your biting power doing collateral damage on the way to the target. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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