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DateTue, 11 Aug 1998 08:57:49 -0500 (CDT)
From"Joseph W. Breu" <>
SubjectRe: "ifconfig inet 0" vs. DHCP
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Martin Mares wrote:

> > It is? According to my TCP/IP protocols book, a DHCP client is suppose to
> > set the ip address to 0.0.0.0 before broadcasting the request for an
> > address. From what the book led me to understand it does this becuase every
> > machine on the network needs an address.
>
> No, it's supposed to _send_ packets with source IP address 0.0.0.0.

So, does the ISC dhcp work with the existing 2.1.x kernels? I
need to get our dhcp service off of the FreeBSD machines and over to
Linux, but if it isnt going to work, then I don't want to bother with it.
Basicly, it has to run on the FreeBSD machine because it has to
support multiple NIC DHCP (3 NIC's to be exact).

Thanks,
-Joseph W. Breu

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