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Date:      Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:20:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        obrien@NUXI.com
Cc:        Studded <Studded@dal.net>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DHCP in the base
Message-ID:  <199809161920.PAA07963@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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>

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<<On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:51:08 -0700, "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> 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

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