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SubjectRe: sending raw packets via PPP
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On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 19:24 -0500, Kevin K wrote:
> The DHCP source code therefore wants
> to send raw packets (SOCKET_PACKET) (down to the ethernet addressing
> info).

I can imagine that would be the case. The box requesting the DHCP
address has no IP address. Therefore TCP/IP can not be used at that
point to communicate between the two. I've not had to look at the DHCP
code to see how this works.



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