> 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 <woll...@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Message-Id: <199809161920.paa07...@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.
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-- David (obr...@nuxi.com -or- obr...@freebsd.org)
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