Re: DHCP bpf alternatives

1999-02-09 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> Erm, you forgot to include the patches to do this... I'll leave that to the anti-bpf fanatics (who can also supply patches to eliminate /dev/[k]mem while they're at it). I'm quite happy seeing ISC dhclient move into /sbin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe f

Re: DHCP bpf alternatives

1999-02-09 Thread Mark Murray
Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > An alternative to dhclient and bpf would be to add an ioctl that would > force an interface to initiate a DHCP configuration. This would allow > for something like: > > ifconfig ep0 dhcp > > Of course, this means moving the entire DHCP state engine into the > ke

DHCP bpf alternatives

1999-02-09 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
An alternative to dhclient and bpf would be to add an ioctl that would force an interface to initiate a DHCP configuration. This would allow for something like: ifconfig ep0 dhcp Of course, this means moving the entire DHCP state engine into the kernel ... --lyndon To Unsubs