Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Feb 1998 08:25:44 +0100 | From | Henrik Storner <> | Subject | Re: DHCPD v1.3 needs testing (fwd) |
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Sergei Viznyuk <sergei@phystech.com> wrote:
>however after some deliberation I came to a conclusion >that dhcpcd client operating through kernel IP layer >is not the best idea. >So in this respect Alan Cox was right. >Dhcpcd must generate ethernet frames itself
And Token-Ring frames, and whatever frametypes you might imagine using DHCP with ? I'm sorry, but I don't understand why a DHCP client needs to know about all sorts of underlying network frames, when there is a perfectly capable network stack that already has all of the necessary code.
-- Henrik Storner
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